Rattus annandalei

• 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 annandalei; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284903; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF63FF2EFEF10FC2FA64F9CA

Rattus annandalei (Bonhote, 1903). In Annandale, Fasciculi Malayenses, Zool., pt. 1:30. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia (Malay Peninsula), S Perak, Sungkei. DISTRIBUTION: Malay Peninsula, Singapore, E Sumatra, and islands of Padang and Rupat off the coast of E Sumatra (see Musser and Newcomb, 1983:515, and references therein). SYNONYMS: bullatus, villosus. COMMENTS: A Sundaic endemic; superficially resembles Sundamys muelleri and some species of Rattus in primitive external, cranial, and dental features, but in other specialized traits R. annandalei is unlike any species of Sundamys and may even eventually be removed from Rattus (Musser and Newcomb, 1983). 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