Bandicota bengalensis

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Ecology: This species is mainly found in agricultural landscapes, such as rice paddies, and can occur in urban areas. Its broad range of natural habitat include swampy open areas, subtropical and tropical dry deciduous forests and mangroves .[1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     1.8     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.7     Artificial/Aquatic - Irrigated Land (includes irrigation channels )   
  
•     15.8     Artificial/Aquatic - Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Bandicota bengalensis (Gray 1835)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 02-May-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Bandicota

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. bengalensis (Lesser Bandicoot-Rat) · B. bengalensis bengalensis (Lesser Bandicoot Rat) · B. indica (Greater Bandicoot-Rat) · B. savilei (Saviles Bandicoot Rat)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 256, p. 261, p. 270, p. 397, p. 448.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. url p. 617.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 70.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 575, p. 591.
• Supplement to Chasen (1940) A Handlist of Malaysian Mammals: containing a generic synonymy and a complete index / By J.R. Ellerman & T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1955. url p. 40.
• The Ecology of arboreal folivores: a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975 / Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. url p. 362.
• The families and genera of living rodents / by J.R. Ellerman; with a list of named forms (1758-1936) by R.W. Hayman and G.W.C.Holt. London: British Museum, 1941. url p. 19, p. 279.

Notes

Contributors

• Aplin, K., Lunde, D., Frost, A. & Molur, S. 2008. Bandicota bengalensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Baillie, J. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU): Mammal specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 108232
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-585160
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585160
• IUCN ID: 193971
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1050

Footnotes

1. Aplin, K., Lunde, D., Frost, A. & Molur, S. 2008. Bandicota bengalensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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