Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Denys, Christiane, Lalis, Aude, Lecompte, Émilie, Cornette, Raphaël, Moulin, Sibyle, Makundi, Rhodes H., Machang, Robert S., Volobouev, Vitaly & Aniskine, Vladimir M., 2011, A faunal survey in Kingu Pira (south Tanzania), with new karyotypes of several small mammals and the description of a new Murid species (Mammalia, Rodentia), Zoosystema 33 (1), pp. 5-47 : 32

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n1a1

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scientific name

Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Mus rattus Linnaeus, 1758: 61 View in CoL .

The black rat is well known in east Africa were it came from a variety of countries brought by human traffic along the Indian Ocean coast. Three individuals were trapped, all in the village houses. They all correspond to the black rat morphology and their karyotype show some variability. Two of the three animals karyotyped display 2n = 38 and 39, and FNa = 58 and 60 respectively ( Fig. 18 View FIG ). The 2n = 39 individual possesses one supernumerary or B chromosome, a phenomenon detected in numerous subspecies and populations of R. rattus ( Yosida 1977) View in CoL .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Rattus

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Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Denys, Christiane, Lalis, Aude, Lecompte, Émilie, Cornette, Raphaël, Moulin, Sibyle, Makundi, Rhodes H., Machang, Robert S., Volobouev, Vitaly & Aniskine, Vladimir M. 2011
2011
Loc

Mus rattus

Linnaeus 1758: 61
1758
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