Rattus tunneyi Thomas 1904

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus tunneyi; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335566; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/53FCC05F35F09EAD52144C2BA348444B

Rattus tunneyi Thomas 1904 Rattus tunneyi Thomas 1904, Novit. Zool., 11: 223. Type Locality: Australia, Northern Territory, Mary River. Vernacular Names: Australian Pale Field Rat. Synonyms: Rattus apex Troughton 1939; Rattus austrinus Thomas 1921; Rattus culmorum (Thomas and Dollman 1909); Rattus dispar Brazenor 1936; Rattus melvilleus Thomas 1921; Rattus vallesius Thomas 1921; Rattus woodwardi (Thomas 1908). Distribution: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also occurs on offshore islands. Recorded historically (holotype of austrinus probably from Kangaroo Isl; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:188), but otherwise only by subfossils (Robinson et al., 2000) from South Australia. Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see Taylor and Horner, 1973:89; Watts and Aslin, 1981; Braithwaite and Baverstock, 1995:663). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). Discussion: Rattus fuscipes species group. This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti (Baverstock et al., 1983 a , 1986). Revised by Taylor and Horner (1973) and reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981), Mahoney and Richardson (1988), and Braithwaite and Baverstock (1995). 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 1493, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535