Rattus Fischer, 1803

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 671

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2014n3a6

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scientific name

Rattus Fischer, 1803
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Genus Rattus Fischer, 1803 View in CoL Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Mus rattus Linnaeus, 1758: 61 View in CoL .

Rattus rattus View in CoL – Fischer 1803: 128.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Sweden, Uppsala.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ZFMK: Fülling collections: 91.258.

Morphological characters

One specimen was found at 2000 m in Oku village by Fülling (1992). The species was already found in Nyassoso village ( Denys et al. 2009) in the CVL. It is widespead all over the Africa.

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Loc

Rattus Fischer, 1803

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer 2014
2014
Loc

Mus rattus

Linnaeus 1758: 61
1758
Loc

Rattus rattus

rattus (Linnaeus 1758
1758
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