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Other than the mountain pygmy possum, only four other small mammals are known to inhabit the alpine and subalpine areas of the Alps: the broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus), the bush rat (Rattus fuscipes), the dusky antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii), and the agile antechinus (A. agilis).
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Moorland dominated by buttongrass is inhabited by orange-bellied parrot Neophema chrysogaster (R), ground parrot Pezoporus wallicus (E), and the rare broad-toothed rat Mastacomys fuscus.
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Tasmania has its broad-toothed rat, shared with mainland Australia, and Australia itself is full of hopping mice.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Two small species of Tasmanian rodent the long-tailed mouse and the broad-toothed rat survived on none of the Bass Strait islands.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Tasmania has its broad-toothed rat, shared with mainland Australia, and Australia itself is full of hopping mice.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Two small species of Tasmanian rodent the long-tailed mouse and the broad-toothed rat survived on none of the Bass Strait islands.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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If a large broad-toothed tool is used to destroy grass and large weeds it should be followed by a smoother to level the ridges and thus lessen the evaporating surface.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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The broad-toothed comb is first used, and must be drawn down the panel, with a wavy motion, in short or long curls; either will answer our purpose now.
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Sometimes a broad-toothed tool is used that will throw sufficient soil over the large weeds near the rows to smother them.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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He then began a statue of the Emperor Charles V, at the time of his return from Tunis; but after he had blocked it and carved it with the pointed chisel, and even in some places with the broad-toothed chisel, it remained unfinished, because fortune and death, envying the world such excellence, snatched him from us at the age of thirty-five.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542
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