Rattus pelurus Sody, 1941

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 : 657

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285044
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scientific name	Rattus pelurus Sody, 1941
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Rattus pelurus Sody, 1941 View in CoL . Treubia, 18:308.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Banggai, Pulau Peleng (1°23'S, 123°14'E), east of Sulawesi GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Peleng Isl.

COMMENTS: Originally described by Sody as a subspecies of R. foramineus , but provisionally treated as an insular population of R. xanthurus by Musser (1984), and finally reviewed as a distinctive species by Musser and Holden (1991), who also placed it in the R. xanthurus group.