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Rattus Fischer, 1803
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180361

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Stenomys Thomas, 1910
		Acanthomys Gray, 1867
		Christomys Sody, 1941
		Cironomys Sody, 1941
		Epimys Trouessart, 1881
		Geromys Sody, 1941
		Mollicomys Sody, 1941
		Octomys Sody, 1941
		Pullomys Sody, 1941
		Togomys Dieterlen, 1989
	Common Name(s):	Old World Rats [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2014

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents
	Suborder	Myomorpha Brandt, 1855 – Rats, souris, Mice, Rats, Voles, Gerbils, Hamsters, Lemmings
	Superfamily	Muroidea Illiger, 1811
	Family	Muridae Illiger, 1811 – campagnols, rats, souris, mice, rats, voles
	Subfamily	Murinae Illiger, 1811 – Old World rats, Old World mice
	Genus	Rattus Fischer, 1803 – Old World Rats
		Direct Children:
	Species	Rattus adustus Sody, 1940 – Burnished Enggano Rat
	Species	Rattus andamanensis (Blyth, 1860) – Indochinese Forest Rat
	Species	Rattus annandalei (Bonhote, 1903) – Annandale's Sundaic Rat
	Species	Rattus arfakiensis Rümmler, 1935 – Vogelkop Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss, 1916) – Ricefield Rat
	Species	Rattus arrogans (Thomas, 1922) – Western New Guinea Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus baluensis (Thomas, 1894) – Kinabalu Rat
	Species	Rattus blangorum Miller, 1942 – Aceh Rat
	Species	Rattus bontanus Thomas, 1921 – Southwestern Xanthurus Rat
	Species	Rattus burrus (Miller, 1902) – Nicobar Archipelago Rat
	Species	Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904) – Australian Dusky Rat
	Species	Rattus elaphinus Sody, 1941 – Sula Archipelago Rat
	Species	Rattus enganus (Miller, 1906) – Enggano Island Rat
	Species	Rattus everetti (Günther, 1879) – Philippine Forest Rat
	Species	Rattus exulans (Peale, 1848) – Polynesian rat, Little Rat, Pacific Rat
	Species	Rattus feliceus Thomas, 1920 – Spiny Seram Island Rat
	Species	Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) – Australian Bush Rat
	Species	Rattus giluwensis Hill, 1960 – Mount Giluwe Rat
	Species	Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How and Maharadatunkamsi, 1991 – Hainald's Flores Island Rat
	Species	Rattus hoffmanni (Matschie, 1901) – Hoffmann's Sulawesi Rat
	Species	Rattus hoogerwerfi Chasen, 1939 – Hoogerwerf's Sumatran Rat
	Species	Rattus jobiensis Rümmler, 1935 – Yapen Island Rat
	Species	Rattus koopmani Musser and Holden, 1991 – Koopman's Peleng Island Rat
	Species	Rattus korinchi (Robinson and Kloss, 1916) – Sumatran Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus leucopus (Gray, 1867) – Cape York Rat
	Species	Rattus losea (Swinhoe, 1871) – Losea Rat
	Species	Rattus lugens (Miller, 1903) – Mentawai Archipelago Rat
	Species	Rattus lutreolus (J. E. Gray, 1841) – Australian Swamp Rat
	Species	Rattus macleari (Thomas, 1887) – Maclear's Christmas Island Rat
	Species	Rattus marmosurus Thomas, 1921 – Marmoset Xanthurus Rat
	Species	Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898) – Mindoro Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold, 1935 – Lampobatang Sulawesi Rat
	Species	Rattus montanus Phillips, 1932 – Sri Lankan Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus mordax (Thomas, 1904) – Eastern New Guinea Rat
	Species	Rattus morotaiensis Kellogg, 1945 – Halmahara Rat
	Species	Rattus nativitatis (Thomas, 1889) – Christmas Island Rat
	Species	Rattus niobe (Thomas, 1906) – Eastern New Guinea Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus nitidus (Hodgson, 1845) – Himalayan Rat, White-footed Indochinese Rat, Himalayan Field Rat
	Species	Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) – rat surmulot, Brown Rat, Norway Rat
	Species	Rattus novaeguineae Taylor and Calaby, 1982 – Papua New Guinea Rat
	Species	Rattus omichlodes (Misonne, 1979) – Arianus' New Guinea Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus osgoodi Musser and Newcomb, 1985 – Osgood's Vietnamese Rat
	Species	Rattus palmarum (Zelebor, 1869) – Car Nicobar Rat
	Species	Rattus pelurus Sody, 1941 – Peleng Island Xanthurus Rat
	Species	Rattus pococki (Ellerman, 1941) – Pocock's New Guinea Highland Rat
	Species	Rattus praetor (Thomas, 1888) – Large New Guinea Spiny Rat
	Species	Rattus pyctoris (Hodgson, 1845) – Himalayan Rat
	Species	Rattus ranjiniae Agrawal and Ghosal, 1969 – Ranjini's Rat
	Species	Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) – rat noir, House Rat, Black Rat, Roof Rat
	Species	Rattus richardsoni (Tate, 1949) – Richardson's New Guinea Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus salocco Tate and Archbold, 1935 – Southeastern Xanthurus Rat
	Species	Rattus sanila Flannery and White, 1991 – New Ireland Forest Rat
	Species	Rattus satarae Hinton, 1918 – Sahyadris Forest Rat
	Species	Rattus simalurensis (Miller, 1903) – Simalur Archipelago Rat
	Species	Rattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) – Canefield Rat
	Species	Rattus steini Rümmler, 1935 – Stein's New Guinea Rat
	Species	Rattus stoicus (Miller, 1902) – Andaman Archipelago Rat
	Species	Rattus tanezumi (Temminck, 1845) – Oriental House Rat
	Species	Rattus tawitawiensis Musser and Heaney, 1985 – Tawitawi Forest Rat
	Species	Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin and Boeadi, 1991 – Timor Forest Rat
	Species	Rattus tiomanicus (Miller, 1900) – Malaysian Field Rat
	Species	Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904) – Australian Pale Field Rat
	Species	Rattus vandeuseni (Taylor and Calaby, 1982) – Van Deusen's New Guinea Mountain Rat
	Species	Rattus verecundus (Thomas, 1904) – New Guinea slender Rat
	Species	Rattus villosissimus (Waite, 1898) – Australian Long-haired Rat
	Species	Rattus xanthurus (Gray, 1867) – Northeastern Xanthurus Rat

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Expert:	Guy G. Musser
	Notes:	Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Expert:	Michael D. Carleton
	Notes:	Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Hall, E. Raymond
	Publication Date:	1981
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	The Mammals of North America, 2nd ed., vol. 2
	Page(s):	601-1175
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-05443-5
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:	Superfamily Muroidea
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
	Page(s):	894-1531
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Rattus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
	Publication Date:	2000
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Common Names of Mammals of the World
	Page(s):	xiv + 204
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-383-3
	Notes:	With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
	Reference for:	Old World Rats[English]

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: Rattus Division. Rattus Frisch, 1775, is unavailable. Corbet and Hill (1992:334) noted that Fischer's original spelling is Ruttus but '... there is no evidence within this publication that the spelling Ruttus was an error. However it has, very sensibly, been universally accepted as an error for Rattus and it would serve no useful purpose to revert to Ruttus.' Sody (1941) proposed the genera Christomys, Cironomys, Geromys, Mollicomys, Octomys, and Pullomys for various species we list in Rattus...

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