The Cape York Mosaic-tailed Rat, or Cape York Melomys (Melomys capensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia.
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“A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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