Rattus hoffmanni ...

• 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 hoffmanni; Rattus rattus; Lynx
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6828230; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6828230

687. Hoffmann’s Sulawesi Rat Rattus hoffmanni French: Rat de Hoffmann / German: Hoffmann-Ratte / Spanish: Rata de Célebes de Hoffmann Other common names: Hoffmann's Rat, Sulawesian Rat Taxonomy. Mus hoffmanni Matschie, 1901, Minahassa region, north-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Rattus hoffmanni is in the R. rattus species group and is closely related to R.molli-comulus and probably R. koopmani. A recent genetic. study found. it to be. sister to a clade consisting of the R. rattus clade and R tiomanicusin the R. rattus species group. Monotypic. Distribution. Sulawesi, except Mt Lampobatang on SW peninsula, and Malenge I, Togian Is, Indonesia. Descriptive notes. Head-body 142-211 mm, tail 145-210 mm, ear 20-25 mm, hindfoot 35-42 mm; weight 90-250 g. Hoffmann’s Sulawesi Rat is mediumto large-sized, with soft, short, and dense pelage. Dorsum is brownish black, highlighted with buff to paler brownish yellow or tawny speckled with black, always having gray underfur and inconspicuous guard hairs. Each eye has ... : 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 pages 838-839, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260 ...