Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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755
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Rattus annandalei
(Bonhote, 1903)
.
In
Annandale, Fasciculi Malayenses, Zool., pt. 1:30
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Malaysia
(Malay Peninsula), S
Perak
, Sungkei
.
DISTRIBUTION: Malay Peninsula,
Singapore
, E Sumatra, and islands of Padang and Rupat off the coast of E Sumatra (see
Musser and Newcomb, 1983:515
, and references therein).
SYNONYMS:
bullatus
,
villosus
.
COMMENTS: A Sundaic endemic; superficially resembles
Sundamys muelleri
and some species of
Rattus
in primitive external, cranial, and dental features, but in other specialized traits
R. annandalei
is unlike any species of
Sundamys
and may even eventually be removed from
Rattus
(
Musser and Newcomb, 1983
)
.