Rattus koopmani Musser and Holden, 1991

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 : 654

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284990
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scientific name	Rattus koopmani Musser and Holden, 1991
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Rattus koopmani Musser and Holden, 1991 View in CoL . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 206:389.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Banggai, Pulau Peleng (1 °23'S, 123°14'E), which is separated from mainland Sulawesi by deepwater Selat Peleng GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Peleng Isl.

COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. In some characters, R. koopmani resembles the Sulawesian R. hoffmanni , but it also shares other traits with R. elaphinus from Taliabu Isl to the east of Peleng Isl. More specimens are needed to assess morphological variation ( Musser and Holden, 1991) and better estimate phylogenetic affinity.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae
Genus	Rattus