Rattus adustus Sody 1940

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1463

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Rattus adustus Sody 1940 , Treubia, 17: 397.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Pulau Enggano, off the coast of W Sumatra (and off the continental shelf), Kiojoh, sea level.

Vernacular Names: Burnished Enggano Rat.

Distribution: Pulau Enggano.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Rattus rattus species group. Still known only by the holotype. Although Sody (1940) described adustus as a species, he later listed it as a subspecies of R. rattus in a section also containing lugens and mentawai , populations endemic to the Mentawai Isls ( Sody, 1941). In morphology and geographic proximity, R. adustus is related to R. lugens , the two are allies of R. simalurensis from the Simalur Arch., and all three share close kinship with Sundaic R. tiomanicus (Musser and Heaney, 1985; Musser, ms.). Rattus adustus , R. enganus (see that account), and R. tiomanicus are the only native Rattus (and the sole native murines) on Pulau Enggano.