Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:61. REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA); G. Urbano-V. (GUV). TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala County, Uppsala. DISTRIBUTION: India and S.E. Asia. Introduced worldwide in tropics and warm temperate zones. COMMENT: Formerly included simalurensis; see Musser, 1979, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 162(6):439. Includes masaretes (see Musser, 1970, J. Mammal., 51:606-609), palelae (see Musser, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2454:1- 19), benguetensis, coloratus, kelleri, lalolis, mindanensis, robiginosus, sapoensis, and zamboangae (see Musser, 1977, Am. Mus. Novit., 2624:12), sladeni, flavipectus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:583), and mansorius (see Johnson, 1962, Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus., p. 225). Revised by Schwarz and Schwarz, 1967, Ann. Esc. Nac. Cienc. Biol. Mex., 14:79- 178. Karyology reviewed by Neithammer, 1975, Zool. Anz., 194:405-415; Gomperl, 1980, p. 87-92, in Vorontsov and Van Brink, eds., Animal genetics and evolution, Junk, The Hague. The different chromosomal "races" may actually be separate species; see Yosida, 1980, Cytogenetics of the Black Rat, Univ. Park Press, Baltimore, U.S.A., 256 pp. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011058094001 as R. rattus. 5301410011058026001 as R. coloratus. 5301410011058054001 as R. kelleri. 5301410011058055001 as R. lalolis. 5301410011058071001 as R. mindanensis. 5301410011058096001 as R. robiginosus. 5301410011058101001 as R. sladeni. 5301410011058116001 as R. zamboangae.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 552-553, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037