Rattus burrus

Rattus burrus (Miller, 1902). Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24:768. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Nicobar Isis, Trinkat Island. DISTRIBUTION: Islands of Trinkat, Little Nicobar, and Great Nicobar in the Nicobar Archipelago. SYNONYMS: burrescens. COMMENTS: Except for larger body size, morphology closely resembles t...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
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 burrus
Sunda
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7284929
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284929
Description
Summary:Rattus burrus (Miller, 1902). Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24:768. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Nicobar Isis, Trinkat Island. DISTRIBUTION: Islands of Trinkat, Little Nicobar, and Great Nicobar in the Nicobar Archipelago. SYNONYMS: burrescens. COMMENTS: Except for larger body size, morphology closely resembles that of most samples of R. tiomanicus from the Sunda Shelf. Whether burrus is an endemic of the Nicobars or whether samples from the three islands are insular variants of R. tiomanicus needs to be tested by a systematic revision of the R. tiomanicus complex (Musser, 1986; Musser and Califia, 1982; 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 651, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098

Similar Items