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

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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.

DENYS C., MISSOUP A. D., TCHIENGUE B., ACHOUN- DONG G., EKOBO A., BILONG BILONG C. F., MAS- SOMA D. L. & NICOLAS V. 2009. - Altitudinal distribution and anthropogenic influence on small mammal assemblages on Mt Kupe, SW Cameroon. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage 56 (3): 159 - 173.

FULLING O. 1992. - Erganzende Angaben uber Gaumenfaltenmuster von Nagetieren (Mammalia: Rodentia) aus Kamerun. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage 43: 415 - 421.

Abbreviations

ZFMK	Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae