Distribution and habitat
It is found only in South-eastern Australia. In Victoria (Australia), Victoria live specimens have been caught in the Snowfields, Great Dividing Range (to Cooma in New South Wales), Gippsland Highlands, Otway Ranges and Wilsons Promontory. Specimens located in feces, scats have been found in the Otway plains and East Gippsland. The species is also recorded in buttongrass Cyperaceae, sedgeland up to 1000 metres in western Tasmania.Menkhorst and Knight, 2001 p. 198 Habitat preferences are areas of herbfields, grasslands and forests with minimal shrubs but a dense covering of sedge, grass, herbs and moss, where precipitation does not fall below 1400 mm per year in alpine climate, alpine areas and others 1000 mm at lower altitudes (DCNR 1995 pp. 208–210).References
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* Mammals of Tasmania Old World rats and mice Mammals of New South Wales Mammals of Victoria (state) Rodents of Australia Mammals described in 1882 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Murinae-stub