Rattus andamanensis ...

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus andamanensis; Rattus rattus; Lynx
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6828002; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6828002

670. Indochinese Forest Rat Rattus andamanensis French: Rat d'Indochine / German: Sikkim-Ratte / Spanish: Rata de bosque de Indochina Other common names: Sikkim Rat Taxonomy. Mus (Leggadar) andamanensis Blyth, 1860, South Andaman Island, An- daman Islands, India. Rattus andamanensis was previously known as R.sikkimensis and R. remotus, but the oldest name available is R. andamanensis. Its placement in species groups of Rattus 1s uncertain, but it is sister to a clade containing the R. rattus and R. exulans species groups. Monotypic. Distribution. E Nepal, NE India, Bhutan, S China (including Hong Kong and Hainan I), N &E Myanmar, NC Thailand, N & E [Laos, Vietnam, S Cambodia, Andaman Is (North Andaman, Interview, Middle Anda- man, Long, Henry Lawrence, Havelock, South Andaman, and Little Andaman), Car Nicobar, and a few Is off the E coast of peninsular Thailand (Koh Tao, Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, and Koh Kra); perhaps in N Bangladesh. Descriptive notes. Head—body 155-200 mm, tail 185-240 mm, ear 23-25 ... : Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 834, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260 ...