Rattus lugens

• 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 lugens; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285002; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF6FFF22FEF503C4FA32F579

Rattus lugens (Miller, 1903). Smithson. Mise. Coll., 45:33. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Mentawai, Pulau Utara Pagai (North Pagai Isl). DISTRIBUTION: Islands of Siberut, Sipora, Pagai Utara, and Pagai Selattan in the Mentawai Archipelago off coast of SW Sumatra; these islands lie on a slender peninsula of the continental shelf. SYNONYMS: mentawai. COMMENTS: Chasen (1940) listed lugens and mentawai each as a subspecies of R. rattus , but the Mentawai endemic is a morphologically distinctive species closely related to R. adustus from Enggano Isl, and to the R. tiomanicus complex (Musser, 1986; Musser and Califia, 1982; Musser and Heaney, 1985). Part of the rodent fauna endemic to Mentawi Archipelago (see account of Leopoldamys siporanus). 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 654, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098