Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 504-560 : 552-553

Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:61.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA); G. Urbano-V. (GUV).

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala County, Uppsala .

DISTRIBUTION: India and S.E. Asia. Introduced worldwide in tropics and warm temperate zones.

COMMENT: Formerly included simalurensis ; see Musser, 1979, Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 162(6):439. Includes masaretes (see Musser, 1970, J. Mammal., 51:606-609), palelae (see Musser, 1971, Am. Mus . Novit., 2454:1- 19), benguetensis, coloratus , kelleri , lalolis , mindanensis , robiginosus , sapoensis, and zamboangae (see Musser, 1977, Am. Mus . Novit., 2624:12), sladeni , flavipectus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:583), and mansorius (see Johnson, 1962, Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus ., p. 225). Revised by Schwarz and Schwarz, 1967, Ann. Esc. Nac. Cienc. Biol. Mex., 14:79- 178. Karyology reviewed by Neithammer, 1975, Zool. Anz., 194:405-415; Gomperl, 1980, p. 87-92, in Vorontsov and Van Brink, eds., Animal genetics and evolution, Junk, The Hague. The different chromosomal "races" may actually be separate species; see Yosida, 1980, Cytogenetics of the Black Rat, Univ. Park Press, Baltimore, U.S.A., 256 pp.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011058094001 as R. rattus .

5301410011058026001 as R. coloratus .

5301410011058054001 as R. kelleri .

5301410011058055001 as R. lalolis .

5301410011058071001 as R. mindanensis .

5301410011058096001 as R. robiginosus .

5301410011058101001 as R. sladeni .

5301410011058116001 as R. zamboangae .