Rattus colletti
Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:599. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, South Alligator River. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; known only from the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, the most restricted range of all the native Australian Rattus. (see map in Watts and...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7284937 2023-05-15T18:05:19+02:00 Rattus colletti Guy G. Musser Michael D. Carleton 1993-12-31 https://zenodo.org/record/7284937 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284937 unknown Smithsonian Institution Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF60FF2DFF0A0F87FDC8F96C doi:10.5281/zenodo.7353098 http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 doi:10.5281/zenodo.7284936 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit https://zenodo.org/record/7284937 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284937 oai:zenodo.org:7284937 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Muridae Rattus Rattus colletti info:eu-repo/semantics/other publication-taxonomictreatment 1993 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.728493710.5281/zenodo.735309810.5281/zenodo.7284936 2023-03-10T15:44:15Z Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:599. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, South Alligator River. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; known only from the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, the most restricted range of all the native Australian Rattus. (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981). COMMENTS: Arranged as a subspecies of R. sordidus by Taylor and Horner (1973), but subsequently treated as a separate species (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Although diploid counts are very different, Rattus colletti (2N=42) is genically close to R. villosissimus (2N=50); the two hybridize in the laboratory, but the offspring exhibit severely reduced fertility (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986). Fertile hybrids have been obtained between laboratory crosses of R. colletti and R. tunneyi, but the two are sympatric in the wild where no hybrids have been found (Baverstock et al., 1983a). 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 Other/Unknown Material Rattus rattus Zenodo |
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Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:599. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, South Alligator River. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; known only from the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, the most restricted range of all the native Australian Rattus. (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981). COMMENTS: Arranged as a subspecies of R. sordidus by Taylor and Horner (1973), but subsequently treated as a separate species (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Although diploid counts are very different, Rattus colletti (2N=42) is genically close to R. villosissimus (2N=50); the two hybridize in the laboratory, but the offspring exhibit severely reduced fertility (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986). Fertile hybrids have been obtained between laboratory crosses of R. colletti and R. tunneyi, but the two are sympatric in the wild where no hybrids have been found (Baverstock et al., 1983a). 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 |
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