Rattus everetti

• 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 everetti; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284963; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF60FF2CFF0A02ABF919FDD9

Rattus everetti (Günther, 1879). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879:75. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, N Mindanao Isl (Heaney and Rabor, 1982). DISTRIBUTION: Islands of Luzon, Catanduanes, Mindoro, Sibuyan, Ticao, Camiguin, Samar, Calicoan, Leyte, Dinagat, Siargao, Mindanao, Basilan, Bohol, Biliran, and Maripipi; probably occurs on other islands in the Philippine archipelago (Musser and Heaney, 1992). SYNONYMS: albigularis, gala, tagulayensis, tyrannus. COMMENTS: May be more than one species represented in insular samples (tyrannus, for example), and the everetti complex needs critical systematic revision. Similar to the core group of Rattus in cranial, dental, and spermatozoal characters (Breed and Musser, 1991; Musser and Heaney, 1992), but not closely related to other species of Rattus endemic to the Philipines. Member of the Philippine New Endemics, but distantly related to other genera in that group (Musser and Heaney, 1992). 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 pages 651-652, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098