Rattus andamanensis

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

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: This is a highly arboreal species that is present in a variety of forest and forest edge habitats . It can occur in secondary and modified habitats with wooded areas. It is often found in agriculture lands , scrubland, and around houses (Smith and Xie 2008).[1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Rattus remotus • Rattus sikkimensis

Notes

This species was previously listed as Rattus sikkimensis or R. remotus, but R. andamanensis has priority over both (see Musser and Carleton 2005).[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Rattus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 82 species and subspecies in this genus:

R. adustus (Burnished Enggano Rat) · R. andamanensis (Indochinese Forest Rat) · R. annandalei (Annandales Sundaic Rat) · R. arfakienis (Vogelkop Mountain Rat) · R. argentiventer (Ricefield Rat) · R. argentiventer argentiventer (Rice-Field Rat) · R. arrogans (Western New Guinea Mountain Rat) · R. baluensis (Kinabalu Rat) · R. blangorum (Aceh Rat) · R. bontanus (Southwestern Xanthurus Rat) · R. burrus (Millers Nicobar Rat) · R. colletti (Dusky Rat) · R. elaphinus (Sula Archipelago Rat) · R. enganus (Enggano Island Rat) · R. everetti (Philippine Forest Rat) · R. exulans (Polynesian Rat) · R. feliceus (Spiny Seram Island Rat) · R. foramineus (Hole Rat) · R. fuscipes (Bush Rat) · R. fuscipes fuscipes (Bush Rat) · R. giluwensis (Giluwe Rat) · R. hainaldi (Hainalds Flores Island Rat) · R. hoffmanni (Hoffmann's Sulawesi Rat) · R. hoogerwerfi (Hoogerwerfs Sumatran Rat) · R. jobiensis (Yapen Rat) · R. koopmani (Koopmans Peleng Island Rat) · R. korinchi (Sumatran Mountain Rat) · R. leucopus (Mottle-Tailed Rat) · R. leucopus leucopus (Mottle-Tailed Rat) · R. losea (Losea Rat) · R. losea losea (Lesser Rice-Field Rat) · R. lugens (Mentawai Archipelago Rat) · R. lutreolus (Australian Swamp Rat) · R. macleari (Christmas Island Rat) · R. marmosurus (Marmoset Xanthurus Rat) · R. mindorensis (Mindoro Mountain Rat) · R. mollicomulus (Lampobatang Sulawesi Rat) · R. montanus (Sri Lankan Mountain Rat) · R. mordax (Eastern Rat) · R. morotaiensis (Halmahara Rat) · R. nativitatis (Christmas Island Rat) · R. niobe (Moss-Forest Rat) · R. nitidus (Himalayan Field Rat) · R. norvegicus (Norway Rat) · R. norvegicus albinicus (Norway Rat) · R. norvegicus norvegicus (Norway Rat) · R. norvegicus var. albus (Norway Rat) · R. novaeguineae (Papua New Guinea Rat) · R. omichlodes (Arianus's Rat) · R. osgoodi (Osgoods Vietnamese Rat) · R. palmarum (Zelebors Nicobar Rat) · R. pelurus (Peleng Island Xanthurus Rat) · R. pococki (Pococks Highland Rat) · R. praetor (Large Spiny Rat) · R. pyctoris (Himalayan Rat) · R. ranjiniae (Ranjinis Field Rat) · R. rattus (European House Rat) · R. rattus alexandrinus (Black Rat) · R. rattus argentiventer (Rice-Field Rat) · R. rattus norvegicus (Norway Rat) · R. rattus sladeni (Black Rat) · R. richardsoni (Glacier Rat) · R. ruber (Red-Barred Rubble Goby) · R. salocco (Southeastern Xanthurus Rat) · R. sanila (New Ireland Rat) · R. sikkimensis (Sikkim Rat) · R. simalurensis (Simalur Archipelago Rat) · R. sordidus (Australian Dusky Field Rat) · R. sordidus sordidus (Australian Dusky Field Rat) · R. steini (Small Spiny Rat) · R. stoicus (Andaman Rat) · R. tanezumi (Oriental House Rat) · R. tawitawiensis (Tawitawi Forest Rat) · R. timorensis (Timor Forest Rat) · R. tiomanicus (Malaysian Field Rat) · R. tunneyi (Tunney's Rat) · R. tunneyi tunneyi (Pale Field Rat) · R. turkestanicus (Turkestan Rat) · R. vandeuseni (Van Deusen's Rat) · R. verecundus (Slender Rat) · R. villosissimus (Long-Haired Rat) · R. xanthurus (Northeastern Xanthurus Rat)

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Further Reading

• Agrawal, V. C. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Indian Muridae and Hystricidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). Records of the Zoological survey of India 180: 1-177.
• Aplin, K. and Frost, A. 2006. Rattus andamanensis. Available at: http://www.ieaitaly.org/samd/. (Accessed: April 21).
• China Species Information Service. 2008. Rattus andamanensis. Available at: http://www.chinabiodiversity.com; http://www.baohu.org. (Accessed: May 23).
• Ellerman, J. R. 1961. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon: Mammalia. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
• Lekagul, B. and Mcneely, J. A. 1977. Mammals of Thailand. White Lotus Press, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Musser, G. G. and Carleton, M. D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. In: D. E. Wilson and D. A. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World: a geographic and taxonomic reference, pp. 894-1531. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
• Musser, G. G. and Heaney, L. R. 1985. Philippine Rattus: A new species from the Sulu Archipelago. American Museum Novitates 2818: 1-32.
• Musser, G. G. and Holden, M. E. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. In: T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener (eds), Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman, pp. 1-432. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
• Musser, G. G. and Newcomb, C. 1985. Definitions of Indochinese Rattus losea and a new species from Vietnam. American Museum Novitates 1814: 1-32.
• Sarker, S. U., Pradhan, M. S., Sinha, Y. P., Talmale, S. S., Mukherjee, S., Thapa, J., Amori, G., Rondinini, C.,and Siliwal, M. 2005. Rattus sikkimensis (Hinton, 1919). In: S. Molur, C. Srinivasulu, B. Srinivasulu, S. Walker, P. O. Nameer and L. Ravikumar (eds), Status of South Asian Non-volant Small Mammals: Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (C.A.M.P.) Workshop Report, pp. 618 pp.. Zoo Outreach Organisation / CBSG-South Asia, Coimbatore, India.
• Smith, A. and Xie, Y. 2008. The Mammals of China. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
• Wang, S. and Xie, Y. 2004. China Species Red List. Vol. 1 Red List. Higher Education Press, Beijing, China.
• Wang, Y. X. 2003. A Complete Checklist of Mammal Species and Subspecies in China (A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, China.

Notes

Contributors

• Aplin, K., Frost, A., Chakraborty, S., Molur, S. & Nameer, P.O. 2008. Rattus andamanensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.

Identifiers

• IUCN ID: 238955
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4755401

Footnotes

1. Aplin, K., Frost, A., Chakraborty, S., Molur, S. & Nameer, P.O. 2008. Rattus andamanensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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