Rakali, the Glossary
The rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster), also known as the rabe, the "Australian Otter" or water-rat, is an Australian native rodent first scientifically described in 1804.[1]
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68 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Animal Diversity Web, Aquatic insect, Awarai, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Bininj Kunwok, Bird egg, Cane toad, Cestoda, Crayfish, Crepuscular animal, Crustacean, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Director of National Parks, Environment of Australia, Estuary, Fish, Fishing net, Frog, Gaagudju, Gnog, Great Depression, Holocene, Hydromys, Innamincka, South Australia, Jawoyn, Kalkatungu, Kamu language, Kayardild language, Kugu Nganhcara, Kurtjar, Mangarayi, Maung people, Mayali dialect, Mian people, Molar (tooth), Muskrat, Mussel, Nematode, Ngarigo, Ngarrindjeri, Ngiyampaa, Nocturnality, Noongar, Northern Territory, Nunggubuyu language, Nyigina, Papua New Guinea, Parasitic worm, Queensland, ... Expand index (18 more) »
- Hydromys
- Mammals described in 1804
- Mammals of Tasmania
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Animal Diversity Web
The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a non-profit group that hosts an online database site that collects natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on species of animals.
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Aquatic insect
Aquatic insects or water insects live some portion of their life cycle in the water.
Awarai
The Awarai (Warray) are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 177219 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition".
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Bininj Kunwok
Bininj Kunwok is an Australian Aboriginal language which includes six dialects: Kunwinjku (formerly Gunwinggu), Kuninjku, Kundjeyhmi (formerly Gundjeihmi), Manyallaluk Mayali (Mayali), Kundedjnjenghmi, and two varieties of Kune (Kune Dulerayek and Kune Narayek).
Bird egg
Bird eggs are laid by the females and range in quantity from one (as in condors) to up to seventeen (the grey partridge).
Cane toad
The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia.
Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes).
Crayfish
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters.
Crepuscular animal
In zoology, a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period, being matutinal, vespertine/vespertinal, or both.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
Department of the Environment and Heritage
The Department of the Environment and Heritage was an Australian government department that existed between October 1998 and December 2007.
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Director of National Parks
Director of National Parks is a Commonwealth corporate entity responsible for the management of a portfolio of terrestrial and marine protected areas proclaimed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
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Environment of Australia
The Australian environment ranges from virtually pristine Antarctic territory and rainforests to degraded industrial areas of major cities.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Fishing net
A fishing net is a net used for fishing.
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail').
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Gaagudju
The Gaagudju, also known as the Kakadu, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Gnog
GNOG is a 2017 puzzle video game, developed by KO_OP and published by Double Fine Presents for PlayStation 4, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Hydromys
Hydromys is a genus of semiaquatic rodents in the subfamily Murinae. Rakali and Hydromys are Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Innamincka, South Australia
Innamincka, formerly Hopetoun, is a township and locality in north-east South Australia.
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Jawoyn
The Jawoyn, also written Djauan, are an Australian Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Kalkatungu
The Kalkadoon (properly Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland.
Kamu language
The Kamu language, or Gamor, was an indigenous Australian language spoken in Northern Territory, Australia.
Kayardild language
Kayardild is a moribund Tangkic language spoken by the Kaiadilt on the South Wellesley Islands, north west Queensland, Australia.
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Kugu Nganhcara
The Kugu Nganhcara, also Wikngenchera, Wik-Ngandjara (Ngandjara) are an Australian group of peoples living in the middle western part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia.
Kurtjar
The Kunggara, also known as Kuritjara, are an indigenous Australian people of the southern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.
Mangarayi
The Mangarayi, also written Mangarai, were an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Maung people
The Maung people, or Warruwi, are an Aboriginal Australian people living on the Goulburn Islands, in the Arafura sea off the coast of the Northern Territory.
Mayali dialect
Mayali or Manyallaluk Mayali is a dialect of Bininj Kunwok, an Australian Aboriginal language.
Mian people
The Mian people (Mianmin) are a people living in the Telefomin district of the Sandaun province in Papua New Guinea.
Molar (tooth)
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.
Muskrat
The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia and South America.
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Ngarigo
The Ngarigo people (also spelt Garego, Ngarego, Ngarago, Ngaragu, Ngarigu, Ngarrugu or Ngarroogoo) are Aboriginal Australian people of southeast New South Wales, whose traditional lands also extend around the present border with Victoria.
Ngarrindjeri
The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia.
Ngiyampaa
The Ngiyampaa people, also spelt Ngyiyambaa, Nyammba and Ngemba, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of New South Wales.
Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
Noongar
The Noongar (also spelt Noongah, Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Nunggubuyu language
Nunggubuyu or Wubuy is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Nunggubuyu people ('Nunggubuyu' is nun- 'people of' + wubuy, the name of the language).
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Nyigina
The Nyikina people (also spelt Nyigina and Nyikena, and listed as Njikena by Tindale) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).
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Parasitic worm
Parasitic worms, also known as helminths, are large macroparasites; adults can generally be seen with the naked eye.
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
Semiaquatic
In biology, being semi-aquatic refers to various macroorganisms that live regularly in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod.
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Sparganosis
Sparganosis is a parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid larvae of the genus Spirometra including S. mansoni, S. ranarum, S. mansonoides and S. erinacei.
Tiwi language
Tiwi is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Tiwi people on the Tiwi Islands, within sight of the coast of northern Australia.
Trematoda
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes or trematodes.
Waanyi
The Waanyi people, also spelt Wanyi, Wanji, or Waanji, are an Aboriginal Australian people from south of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Wadawurrung
The Wadawurrung nation, also called the Wathaurong, Wathaurung, and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong, and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria.
Water bird
A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.
The webbed foot is a specialized limb with interdigital membranes (webbings) that aids in aquatic locomotion, present in a variety of tetrapod vertebrates.
Western New Guinea
Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch and granted to Indonesia in 1962.
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Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
The Wheatbelt is one of nine regions of Western Australia defined as administrative areas for the state's regional development, and a vernacular term for the area converted to agriculture during colonisation.
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Wik-Mungkan people
The Wik-Mungkan people are an Aboriginal Australian group of peoples who traditionally ranged over an extensive area of the western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland and speak the Wik Mungkan language.
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Wik-Ngathan language
Wik-Ngathan, or Wik-Iinjtjenj (Wik-Iinychanya), is a Paman language spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Wik-Ngathan people.
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Wunambal
The Wunambal (Unambal), also known as Wunambal Gaambera, Uunguu (referring to their lands), and other names, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Xeromys myoides
Xeromys myoides, also known as the water mouse, marine mouse, mangrove mouse, false water rat, manngay and yirrkoo, is a species of rodent native to waterways of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Rakali and Xeromys myoides are Mammals of Queensland, Mammals of the Northern Territory, rodents of Australia and rodents of New Guinea.
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Yanyuwa language
Yanyuwa is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola (Burrulula) in the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Yidiny language
Yidiny (also spelled Yidiɲ, Yidiñ, Jidinj, Jidinʲ, Yidinʸ, Yidiń) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language, spoken by the Yidinji people of north-east Queensland.
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Yolngu
The Yolngu or Yolŋu are an aggregation of Aboriginal Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
See also
Hydromys
Mammals described in 1804
- Big hairy armadillo
- Big lutrine opossum
- Bighorn sheep
- Commerson's dolphin
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
- Common minke whale
- Gayal
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo
- Long-nosed bandicoot
- Makassar tarsier
- Natal free-tailed bat
- Rakali
- Roan antelope
- Saki monkey
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- Southern right whale dolphin
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- Sowerby's beaked whale
- Steppe wolf
- Swamp wallaby
Mammals of Tasmania
- Arctocephalus forsteri
- Australian swamp rat
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Brown fur seal
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Common brushtail possum
- Common ringtail possum
- Common wombat
- Dusky antechinus
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Eastern bettong
- Eastern false pipistrelle
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Eastern quoll
- Gould's wattled bat
- International Thylacine Specimen Database
- Krefft's glider
- Large forest bat
- List of mammals of Tasmania
- Little forest bat
- Long-nosed potoroo
- Long-tailed mouse
- New Holland mouse
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi
- Platypus
- Rakali
- Red-necked wallaby
- Short-beaked echidna
- Southern brown bandicoot
- Southern elephant seal
- Southern forest bat
- Swamp antechinus
- Tasmanian devil
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Tasmanian pygmy possum
- Tasmanian short-beaked echidna
- Thylacine
- Tiger quoll
- White-footed dunnart
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakali
Also known as Australian water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster, Hydromys fuliginosus, Hydromys fulvolavatus, Hydromys leucogaster, Hydromys lutrilla, Native Water Rat, Native Water Rats.
, Semiaquatic, Snail, Sparganosis, Tiwi language, Trematoda, Waanyi, Wadawurrung, Water bird, Webbed foot, Western New Guinea, Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wik-Mungkan people, Wik-Ngathan language, Wunambal, Xeromys myoides, Yanyuwa language, Yidiny language, Yolngu.