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Outlines of the Natural History of
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and
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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DISTRIBUTION: Original distribution assumed to be SE Siberia and N
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(
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), but introduced worldwide where it is more common in colder climates of high latitudes (
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); in warmer regions and tropics restricted to habitats highly modified by humans—sewers, buildings, wharves, and breakwaters, for example (
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).
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SYNONYMS:
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<emphasis box="[460,633,631,669]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">norvegicus</emphasis>
var.
<emphasis box="[722,804,631,669]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">albus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Pallas" authorityYear="1779" box="[829,931,631,669]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caraco">caraco</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Oken" authorityYear="1816" box="[952,1072,631,669]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caspius">caspius</taxonomicName>
, cauquenensis, decaryi,
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(nomen
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Miller" baseAuthorityYear="1902" box="[360,474,673,711]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nudum">nudum</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName authorityName="Pallas" authorityYear="1778" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1778" box="[507,683,673,711]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="decumanus">decumanus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[707,834,673,711]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="discolor">discolor</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[851,1045,673,711]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="griseipectus">griseipectus</taxonomicName>
,
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,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Matschie" baseAuthorityYear="1901" box="[1259,1420,673,711]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hoffmanni">hoffmanni</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
(Trouessart, 1904, not Matschie, 1901),
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, hybridus,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bangs" authorityYear="1898" box="[1015,1163,715,754]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insolatus">insolatus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1887" box="[1181,1312,715,754]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="javanus">javanus</taxonomicName>
, leucosternum,
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,
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,
</emphasis>
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var.
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,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wagner" baseAuthorityYear="1845" box="[966,1164,757,795]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maniculatus">maniculatus</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis box="[1186,1358,757,795]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">norvegicus</emphasis>
var.
<emphasis box="[1448,1508,757,795]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">orii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[1508,1515,757,795]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">,</emphasis>
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var.
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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, praestans, primarius,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ellerman" authorityYear="1949" box="[1023,1165,798,837]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="simpsoni">simpsoni</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Philippi, R. A." box="[1192,1434,798,837]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref285342" refString="Philippi, R. A. 1900. Figuras i descripciones de los murideos de Chile. Anales de Museo Nacional de Chile, Zoologie, 14 a: 1 - 70." year="1900">Philippi, 1900</bibRefCitation>
, not Ellerman, 1949),
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socer,
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, surmulottus, tamarensis
</emphasis>
(see
<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R. &amp; T. C. S. Morrison-Scott" box="[1109,1715,840,879]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref93180" refString="Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp." year="1951">Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Jones, J. K., Jr. &amp; D. H. Johnson" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref176621" refString="Jones, J. K., Jr., and D. H. Johnson. 1965. Synopsis of the lagomorphs and rodents of Korea. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 16: 357 - 407." year="1965">Jones and Johnson, 1965</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Laurie, E. M. O. &amp; J. E. Hill" box="[697,1066,882,920]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref205065" refString="Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands 1758 - 1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp." year="1954">Laurie and Hill, 1954</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Mahoney, J. A. &amp; B. J. Richardson" box="[1087,1632,882,920]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref222168" refString="Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274." year="1988">Mahoney and Richardson, 1988</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Musser, G. G." pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref251503" refString="Musser, G. G. 1977 a. Epimys benguetensis, a composite, and one zoogeographic view of rat and mouse faunas in the Philippines and Celebes. American Museum Novitates, 2624: 1 - 15." year="1977">Musser, 1977a</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Musser, G. G. &amp; C. Newcomb" box="[479,969,924,962]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref252806" refString="Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1985. Definitions of Indochinese Rattus losea and a new species from Vietnam. American Museum Novitates, 1814: 1 - 32." year="1985">Musser and Newcomb, 1985</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Sody, H. J. V." box="[989,1173,924,962]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref332599" refString="Sody, H. J. V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo- Malayan and Indo- Australian regions (with descriptions of 43 new genera, species and subspecies). Treubia, 18: 255 - 325." year="1941">Sody, 1941</bibRefCitation>
; and
<bibRefCitation author="Osgood, W. H." box="[1269,1508,924,962]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref269062" refString="Osgood, W. H. 1943. The mammals of Chile. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 30: 1 - 268." year="1943">Osgood, 1943</bibRefCitation>
).
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<subSubSection pageId="156" pageNumber="657" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="156.[233,1844,294,1589]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">
COMMENTS: Geographic variation among presumably native Chinese populations reported by
<bibRefCitation author="Wu De-ling" box="[413,585,1007,1045]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref395640" refString="Wu De-ling. 1982. [On subspecific differentiation of brown rat (Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout) in China.] Acta Theriologica Sinica, 2: 107 - 112 (in Chinese)." year="1982">Wu (1982)</bibRefCitation>
. Samples from native Asian, free-living introduced, and laboratory populations were the subjects of numerous morphological (e.g.,
<bibRefCitation author="Bugge, J." box="[1475,1685,1049,1087]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref45930" refString="Bugge, J. 1970. The contribution of the stapedial artery to the cephalic arterial supply in muroid rodents. Acta Anatomica, 76: 313 - 134." year="1970">Bugge, 1970</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Greene, E. C." pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref129309" refString="Greene, E. C. 1935. Anatomy of the rat. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n. s., 27: 1 - 370." year="1935">Greene, 1935</bibRefCitation>
), physiological, chromosomal and molecular (many are summarized in
<bibRefCitation author="Yosida, T. H." pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref401448" refString="Yosida, T. H. 1980. Cytogenetics of the black rat: Karyotype evolution and species differentiation. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 256 pp." year="1980">Yosida, 1980</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation author="Levan, G. &amp; K. Klinga &amp; C. Szpirer &amp; J. Szpirer" box="[538,839,1132,1171]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref210734" refString="Levan, G., K. Klinga, C. Szpirer, and J. Szpirer. 1990. Gene map of the rat (Rattus norvegicus) 2 N = 42. Isozyme Bulletin, 23: 34 - 42." year="1990">Levan et al., 1990</bibRefCitation>
) studies, which have produced among the mass of data a gene map of
<taxonomicName authority="(Levan et al., 1990)" baseAuthorityName="Levan" baseAuthorityYear="1990" box="[583,1149,1175,1214]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="norvegicus">
<emphasis box="[583,804,1175,1214]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">R. norvegicus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Levan, G. &amp; K. Klinga &amp; C. Szpirer &amp; J. Szpirer" box="[832,1138,1175,1214]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref210734" refString="Levan, G., K. Klinga, C. Szpirer, and J. Szpirer. 1990. Gene map of the rat (Rattus norvegicus) 2 N = 42. Isozyme Bulletin, 23: 34 - 42." year="1990">Levan et al., 1990</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and results of attempted hybridizations between
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<emphasis box="[776,996,1216,1256]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">R. norvegicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and different forms of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[1405,1548,1216,1256]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rattus">
<emphasis box="[1405,1548,1216,1256]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">R. rattus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(summarized by
<bibRefCitation author="Yosida, T. H." box="[359,580,1258,1297]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref401448" refString="Yosida, T. H. 1980. Cytogenetics of the black rat: Karyotype evolution and species differentiation. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 256 pp." year="1980">Yosida, 1980</bibRefCitation>
). Review of European populations provided by
<bibRefCitation author="Becker, K." box="[1411,1666,1258,1297]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref25716" refString="Becker, K. 1978 b. Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) -- Wanderratte (WR). Pp. 401 - 420, in Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas (J. Niethammer and F. Krapp, eds.). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (Wiesbaden), 1: 1 - 476." year="1978">Becker (1978b)</bibRefCitation>
; overall review of systematics reported by
<bibRefCitation author="Milyutin, A. I." box="[958,1227,1301,1339]" pageId="156" pageNumber="657" refId="ref242944" refString="Milyutin, A. I. 1990. Sistematika [Systematics]. Pp. 25 - 33, in Seraya krysa: Sistematika, ekologiya, reguliatsiya chislennosti [Norway rat: Systematics, ecology, population control] (V. E. Sokolov and E. V. Karasjova, eds.). Nauka, Moscow, 452 pp. (in Russian)." year="1990">Milyutin (1990)</bibRefCitation>
. Phylogenetic relationships to other members of subgenus
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<emphasis box="[848,953,1342,1381]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">Rattus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
equivocal (e.g., contrast
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, with
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), but morphological and biochemical data indicate significant phylogenetic divergence between
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<emphasis box="[947,1167,1426,1465]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">R. norvegicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[1255,1398,1426,1465]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">R. rattus</emphasis>
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(
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Baverstock et al., 1983
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a,
<emphasis box="[359,386,1467,1506]" italics="true" pageId="156" pageNumber="657">b,</emphasis>
1986
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;
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). Phallic morphology of Chinese samples described by
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in context of assessing phylogenetic relationships among Chinese murines.
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