Rattus enganus (Miller, 1906)

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 : 651

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scientific name	Rattus enganus (Miller, 1906)
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Rattus enganus (Miller, 1906) View in CoL . Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 30:821.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Pulau Enggano (west of Sumatra and off the continental margin) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Enggano Isl.

COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some cranial, dental, and external features resemble those in R. macleari from Christmas Island and R. xanthurus from Sulawesi, but the holotype of R. enganus is morphologically distinctive; determining its phylogenetic affinities within Rattus will require more specimens from Enggano Isl and revisionary study of the genus ( Musser and Newcomb, 1983).