Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss, 1916)

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 : 650

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scientific name

Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss, 1916)
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Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss, 1916) View in CoL . J. Strs. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc., 73:274.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, west coast of Sumatra, Pasir Ganting .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Thailand, Koh Samui off the east coast of peninsular Thailand, Cambodia, and S Vietnam in Indochina; the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Kangean Isl, and Bali on the Sunda Shelf; islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Rintja, Flores, Sumba, and Timor in Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Isis); Mindoro and Mindanao Isis in the Philippines; Sulawesi; and one place and date of collection in New Guinea.

SYNONYMS: bali, brevicaudatus , chaseni, hoxaensis , pesticulus , saturnus, umbriventer .

COMMENTS: The incorrect historical association of argentiventer as a subspecies of Rattus rattus was summarized by Musser (1973b). Judged by its close morphological alliance with species Ellerman (1941) placed in subgenus Rattus , which are mostly mainland Asian in origins, and its peculiar geographic distribution that is discordant with ranges of endemic species, R. argentiventer seems clearly an element that is native to Indochina and was inadvertently introduced into the endemic and highly distinctive murine faunas of the Sunda Shelf, Philippines, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, and New Guinea ( Musser, 1973b; Musser and Holden, 1991; Musser and Newcomb, 1983; Taylor et al., 1982), possibly with the spread of rice culture. Rattus hoxaensis from C Vietnam, described by Dao (1960), probably represents R. argentiventer .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Rattus

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Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss, 1916)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss, 1916)

Robinson and Kloss 1916: 274
1916
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