Rattus adustus Sody 1940

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus adustus; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335443; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A31A098593A6284D753C904FBCA94B7B

Rattus adustus Sody 1940 Rattus adustus Sody 1940, Treubia, 17: 397. Type Locality: Indonesia, Pulau Enggano, off the coast of W Sumatra (and off the continental shelf), Kiojoh, sea level. Vernacular Names: Burnished Enggano Rat. Distribution: Pulau Enggano. Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable. Discussion: Rattus rattus species group. Still known only by the holotype. Although Sody (1940) described adustus as a species, he later listed it as a subspecies of R. rattus in a section also containing lugens and mentawai , populations endemic to the Mentawai Isls (Sody, 1941). In morphology and geographic proximity, R. adustus is related to R. lugens , the two are allies of R. simalurensis from the Simalur Arch., and all three share close kinship with Sundaic R. tiomanicus (Musser and Heaney, 1985; Musser, ms.). Rattus adustus , R. enganus (see that account), and R. tiomanicus are the only native Rattus (and the sole native murines) on Pulau Enggano. Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1463, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535