Rattus elaphinus Sody, 1941

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 651

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scientific name	Rattus elaphinus Sody, 1941
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Rattus elaphinus Sody, 1941 View in CoL . Treubia, 18:307.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Sula, Pulau Taliabu (east of Pulau Peleng and Sulawesi) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Palau (Isl) Taliabu, Indonesia ( Musser and Holden, 1991) and adjacent Pulau Manggole (Flannery, in litt.).

COMMENTS: A morphologically distinctive species that is most closely related to native Rattus on the Moluccas and New Guinea. Amplified description and comparisons with Sulawesian R. hoffmanni and R. koopmani from Peleng Isl provided by Musser and Holden (1991).