Rattus lutreolus

• 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 lutreolus; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285004; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF6CFF21FF030A2CFB6FFD38

Rattus lutreolus (J. E. Gray, 1841). In G. Gray, App. C in Jour. Two Exped. Aust., 11:409. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Hunter River, Moscheto Isl (locality of lectotype; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988). DISTRIBUTION: Tasmania; coastal and subcoastal habitats from vicinity of Adelaide in SE South Australia east and north through Victoria, New South Wales to SE Queensland; isolated populations occur in N Queensland (see maps in Taylor and Horner, 1973:53, and Watts and Aslin, 1981:231). SYNONYMS: cambricus, imbil, lacus, pachyurus, petterdi, tetragonurus, vellerosus, velutinus. COMMENTS: Watts and Aslin (1981) provided a comprehensive discussion of the species. See Taylor and Calaby (1988b, Mammalian Species, 299). 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 655, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098