Dusky rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Rattus
Species:	R. colletti
Binomial name
Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904)
Synonyms[2]
Mus colletti Thomas, 1904

The dusky rat (Rattus colletti) is an indigenous species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Australia.

Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land call this animal mulbbu, a name also applied to other rodent species.^[3] It was first described in 1904 by British zoologist Oldfield Thomas.^[4]

The rat is found only in the monsoonal subcoastal plains of the Northern Territory, Australia.

The dusky rat is eaten according to Peterson Nganjmirra^{[5][page needed]} and is prey to the Australian water python (Liasis fuscus) also ranging across northern Australia.

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1468. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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