Rattus sikkimensis Hinton 1919

• Main Authors: Guy G. Musser, Michael D. Carleton
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus sikkimensis; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285062; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF68FF25FF07084EFE79FA7E

Rattus sikkimensis Hinton, 1919. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 26:394. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Sikkim, Pashok, 3500 ft. DISTRIBUTION: S China (incl. islands of Hong Kong and Hainan), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (incl. Koh Klum off SE Thailand in the Gulf of Siam), C and N Burma, NE India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Bhutan), and possibly E Nepal. Not recorded on the mainland of peninsular Thailand south of Isthmus of Kra (10°30'N), but occurs on four islands (Koh Tau, Koh Pangan, Koh Samui, and Koh Kra) off the coast well south of the Isthmus (see map in Musser and Heaney, 1985). SYNONYMS: hainanicus, klumensis, koratensis, kraensis, remotus, yaoshanensis. COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of R. rattus (Hinton, 1919), then listed as a synonym of R. r. brunneusculus (Ellerman, 1961). South Vietnamese samples discussed under R. sladeni (Van Peenen et al., 1969), N Vietnamese series under R. koratensis (Dao, 1985), and Thai samples under R. koratensis and R. remotus (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a). 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 659, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098