The scientific or taxonomic name would be Neotoma fuscipes.
mostly just skunks, hawks, owls, and wild cats. humans rarely hunt these wood rats.
Black-footed ferrets sleep and raise their kits in abandoned prairie dog holes.
The redwood forests have blacktailed deer, black bear, raccoon, cougar, coyote, mice, wood rats, and a host of other animals typical of the California coastal region. Marbled murrelets are known to nest in old-growth redwoods.
On the ground on shore near ocean such as in Galapagos, not in trees.
Roland Dick Walters has written: 'Habitat occurrence and notes on the life of the dusky-footed wood rat, Neotoma fuscipes baird' -- subject(s): Wood rats
The Key Largo Woodrat is an an endangered species. The Burmese Python is an invasive species, and is harming many native and endangered species in the Everglades. A Burmese Python can even eat an alligator - it will eat anything, no matter what size. This is why the Key Largo Woodrat is threatened by the Burmese Pythons.
Dusky darter was created in 1883.
Dusky caenolestid was created in 1863.
Dusky Starfrontlet was created in 1953.
Dusky pipefish was created in 1882.
Dusky catshark was created in 1878.