Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 655

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scientific name	Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898)
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Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898) View in CoL . Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 14:402.

TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindoro Isl, Mt Dulangan, 5000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Highlands of Mindoro ( Philippines).

SYNONYMS: picinus.

COMMENTS: Phylogenetically distant from other species of Rattus native to the Philippines ( Musser and Heaney, 1992). Morphologically closely related to Rattus tiomanicus , which is native to Malay Peninsula and islands on the Sunda Shelf, and possibly only an insular variant of that species ( Musser and Califia, 1982; Musser and Heaney, 1985). Musser (1977b) explained why picinus is a synonym.