Rattus andamanensis Blyth 1860

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus andamanensis; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11358343; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/8704C1BC2967EA20DA5DB3E68F648EC9

Rattus andamanensis Blyth 1860 Rattus andamanensis Blyth 1860, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 29: 103. Type Locality: India, Andaman Isls, South Andaman Isl. Vernacular Names: Indochinese Forest Rat. Synonyms: Rattus burrulus (Miller 1902); Rattus flebilis (Miller 1902); Rattus hainanicus G. M. Allen 1925; Rattus holchu Chaturvedi 1965; Rattus klumensis (Kloss 1916); Rattus koratensis Kloss 1919; Rattus kraensis (Kloss 1916); Rattus remotus (Robinson and Kloss 1914); Rattus sikkimensis Hinton 1919; Rattus yaoshanensis Shih 1930. Distribution: S China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian, islands of Hong Kong and Hainan), Vietnam (including four coastal islands; Kuznetsov, 2000, recorded as koratensis ), Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (including Koh Klum off SE Thailand in the Gulf of Siam), C and N Burma, NE India (Sikkim, N West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya), Bhutan, and E Nepal. Not recorded from the mainland of peninsular Thailand south of Isthmus of Kra (10EE, 30' N), but occurs on four islands (Koh Tau, Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, and Koh Kra) off the coast well south of the Isthmus (see Musser and Heaney, 1985). Also on the Andaman Isls (islands of North Andaman, Interview, Middle Andaman, Long, Henry Lawrence, Havelock, South Andaman, and Little Andaman) and Car Nicobar, northernmost of the Nicobar Isls. Limits in NE India and Nepal unresolved. Distribution based on specimens examined by Musser). Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as R. sikkimensis . Discussion: Rattus rattus species group. Usually listed as sikkimensis , which was described as a subspecies of R. rattus (Hinton, 1919 a ), then arranged as a synonym of R. r. brunneusculus (Ellerman, 1961), later identified as R. sikkimensis (Musser and Newcomb, 1983; Musser and Heaney, 1985; Musser and Carleton, 1993), and discussed under R. remotus by Corbet and Hill (1992), who noted that remotus is an older name than sikkimensis . South Vietnamese samples have also been described under R. sladeni (Van Peenen et al., 1969), N Vietnamese series as R. koratensis (Dao, ...