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<emphasis box="[253,469,1395,1433]" italics="true" pageId="157" pageNumber="658">Rattus rattus</emphasis>
(Linnaeus, 1758)
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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DISTRIBUTION: Native to Indian Peninsula, and introduced worldwide in the tropics and temperate zone (
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; Dieterlen, 1979; Duplantier et al., 19916;
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,
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Niethammer, 1975;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, J. M. &amp; J. H. Calaby &amp; H. M. Van Deusen" pageId="157" pageNumber="658" refId="ref348303" refString="Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and H. M. Van Deusen. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 173: 177 - 336." year="1982">Taylor et al., 1982</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Twigg, G. I." box="[480,690,1605,1643]" pageId="157" pageNumber="658" refId="ref361340" refString="Twigg, G. I. 1992. The black rat Rattus rattus in the United Kingdon in 1989. Mammal Review, 22: 33 - 42." year="1992">Twigg, 1992</bibRefCitation>
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; Yosida et al., 1985).
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SYNONYMS:
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aethiops,
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, albus, alexandrino-rattus,
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,
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,
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, caeruleus,
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,
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, coquimbensis,
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, cyaneus, doboensis,
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, doriae,
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,
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,
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,
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, fulvaster,
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, gangutrianus, girensis,
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(Desmarest, 1822, not Bechstein, 1800),
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(nomen
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),
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, jurassicus,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, narbadae,
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, nericola, osorninus,
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, rattiformis,
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,
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, ruthenus, saltuum,
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,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hinton" authorityYear="1918" box="[1573,1691,1942,1980]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="157" pageNumber="658" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="satarae">satarae</taxonomicName>
,
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,
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, subrufus, sueirensis,
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,
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,
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, tettensis,
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,
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,
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</emphasis>
(see
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;
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;
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;
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; Schütter and Thonglongya, 1971;
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).
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COMMENTS: Numerous cytogenetic studies focusing on the
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<emphasis box="[1291,1433,2109,2147]" italics="true" pageId="157" pageNumber="658">R. rattus</emphasis>
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complex, summarized by
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,
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, Niethammer (1975), and
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, have revealed the complex to consist of two basic groups of populations. The Oceanian or European type has 2N=38 (
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some), the Asian type is characterized by 2N=42; the two are also distinguished by biochemical features (
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) as well as morphological traits (
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). Where the Asian type is indigenous, the Oceanian form is restricted to ports or on ships in harbor. Both chromosomal kinds apparently occur together without evidence of interbreeding on the Polynesian island of
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(Yosida et al., 1985), but do hybridize in the laboratory (usually producing sterile offspring) and on the South Pacific islands of Chichijima and Eniwetok (with apparent introgression). The biological status of the two kinds were best summarized by
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, who noted that if &quot;the chromosomal, electrophoretic and laboratory hybridization data are considered together, it seems that the 2n=38 and 2n=42 forms are best considered as incipient species. Where they meet, they may introgress, become sympatric without interbreeding or one may replace the other depending upon the prevailing biological conditions,&quot; a view earlier espoused by
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.
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<emphasis box="[1362,1577,293,334]" italics="true" pageId="158" pageNumber="659">Rattus rattus</emphasis>
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is the name for the 2N=38 /40 group, and we list it as a species separate from the 2N=42 form, for which the oldest name is
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<emphasis box="[811,1005,380,416]" italics="true" pageId="158" pageNumber="659">R. tanezumi</emphasis>
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(see that account).
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