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<emphasis id="ABFA6E29CDFE19D4436A6AB93169178F" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">Rattus palmarum</emphasis>
Zelebor 1869
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<treatmentCitation id="0E9654F5C423A87312F8E50A8A727E23" Novara=", Zool., I (Wirbelthiere), I (Saugeth.)" author="Zelebor" authority="Zelebor 1869" authorityName="Zelebor" authorityYear="1869" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="26" pageNumber="1481" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="palmarum" title="Rattus palmarum" volumeTitle="Reise Oesterr. Fregatte " year="1869">
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<emphasis id="D2A994E342B7610CE24362B8E7A3D489" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">Rattus palmarum</emphasis>
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,
<bibCitation id="7AB2931F54F0C8C1F54D621AEA9B304D" Novara=", Zool., I (Wirbelthiere), I (Saugeth.)" author="Zelebor" pageNumber="1481" pagination="26" title="Rattus palmarum" volumeTitle="Reise Oesterr. Fregatte " year="1869">Reise Oesterr. Fregatte &quot;Novara&quot;, Zool., I (Wirbelthiere), I (Saugeth.): 26</bibCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="3BD09778F39AFE586EBB02E08C7AE131" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1481">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="06020CA51129C4B667898840B8D4F7A0" name="India">India</collectingCountry>
, Nicobar Isls, Car Nicobar (see below).
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<emphasis id="428B20675409E0B23A1BF93A8DC113AD" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1481">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="2FE606CC699EA2F79457B94A78BF172B" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1481">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="829DDADFD014DA6510A57AC4C4DC10C0" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">Rattus novarae</emphasis>
(Fitzinger 1861)
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;
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<emphasis id="500D76CB3D075E5E64777C17177F31E2" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">Rattus palmarum</emphasis>
(Fitzinger 1861)
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.
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<emphasis id="5D79D35DD6A24EBCFB1E3658A0E6324F" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1481">Distribution:</emphasis>
Nicobar Isls, Car Nicobar.
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<emphasis id="337B5B77983FE28985CCFEF9A6D444E1" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1481">Conservation:</emphasis>
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Vulnerable.
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<emphasis id="41C5ED8F1D5D03C9D6C16FD2AE9327D5" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1481">Discussion:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="61AB6B7ECE915B99D41EF22FE30F2DA3" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">Rattus rattus</emphasis>
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species group. A distinctive species known only by
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in the original series (
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B26, B27, 21497, and 27027; Musser and Heaney, 1985;
<bibRefCitation id="B52C14A19EBEB4D404251DA2F6ACE4C2" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; C. Newcomb" refId="ref252768" refString="Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598." year="1983">Musser and Newcomb, 1983</bibRefCitation>
). Because
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provided no exact collection site, Musser and Heaney (1985) stated that the island was unknown where the rats were obtained. In response, Dr. K. Bauer wrote Musser the following: &quot;It is true, that
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gave no more exact information. But K. Scherzer, the Historiographer of the expedition did. In his detailed three volume report Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore
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. von Wüllerstort-Urbair, published in Vienna 1861/62 (and later in Italian and English translations), he summarized the scientific results. And in connection with a sketch of the fauna found on the
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(vol. 2:71/72) he states (in translation): In mammals, all islands of the group are poor. We only found 8 species... and two different murids (
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). One of these, nearly as big as the
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Rat, we saw only on Car-Nicobar and Sambelong (= Great Nicobar);... always in the crowns of cocos palms, very fast, difficult to see and shoot, doing heavy damage to cocos plantations.... A second, in size like our Black Rat, lives on Car-Nicobar in holes in the ground that it shares in total peace with a (terrestrial) crab (
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<emphasis id="251565F58627E52E1F3D711E1D350B5A" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">Gecarcinus</emphasis>
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).... This history gives detailed information on spots visited and time spent there.... Careful study of this text might well give further hints, but already from a hurried overview it seems quite certain, that the
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<emphasis id="0F62AB592F349EE4B5843D44962AF848" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">palmarum</emphasis>
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sample came from Car-Nicobar.&quot;
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is large (head and body length for
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=
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, greatest skull length = 49.0-54.0 mm) and has a moderately long tail (
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); brownish, dense, and rough dorsal coat with long guard hairs; white underparts; ten pairs of mammae, and a large, robust cranium with thick and high dorsolateral ridges. The skull is a larger, more robust version of that seen in
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<emphasis id="20FD072614DBA6057358540515085388" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">R. burrus</emphasis>
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from the other Nicobar Isls,
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<emphasis id="367036FC477A4D3D66BEE49BDEDA3237" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">R. simalurensis</emphasis>
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from the Simalur Group and
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<emphasis id="48943E2D2DC29A26E40963A2912C8993" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">R. lugens</emphasis>
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from the Mentawai Arch. It may be most closely related to
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<emphasis id="D86C8BE25F7972681D807D33B85C1231" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">R. burrus</emphasis>
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, which occurs on Trinkat, Little Nicobar, and also Great Nicobar Isls but not Car Nicobar, and it may be
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and
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that Scherzer saw on Great Nicobar.
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occurs on Car Nicobar (see that account). It is about the same body size as Scherzers &quot;Black Rat,&quot; and the larger-bodied
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<emphasis id="4ACDBC987D121EE1B58750F26732171F" italics="true" pageNumber="1481">R. palmarum</emphasis>
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, which also occurs on that island, matches the &quot;
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Rat&quot; in body size
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.
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