Rattus adustus Sody 1940

• Main Authors: Guy G. Musser, Michael D. Carleton
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus adustus; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7284896; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284896

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. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Enggano Isl. COMMENTS: Known only by the holotype. Although Sody (1940) described adustus as a species of Rattus, he later listed it as a subspecies of R. rattus in a section also containing lugens and mentaivai, populations endemic to the Mentawai islands (Sody, 1941). The Enggano rat is distinctive; in morphology and geographic proximity it is related to R. lugens (Musser and Heaney, 1985). Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 650, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098