Rattus enganus Miller 1906

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 : 1468

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scientific name

Rattus enganus Miller 1906
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Rattus enganus Miller 1906 View in CoL

Rattus enganus Miller 1906 View in CoL , Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus ., 30: 821.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Pulau Enggano (southwest of Sumatra and off the continental margin).

Vernacular Names: Enggano Island Rat.

Distribution: Known only from Pulau Enggano.

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Rattus species group unresolved. Represented only by the holotype. Some cranial, dental, and external features resemble those in R. macleari from Christmas Isl and R. xanthurus from Sulawesi, but the holotype of R. enganus is morphologically distinctive; determining its phylogenetic affinities within Rattus will require more specimens from Pulau Enggano and revisionary study of the genus ( Musser and Newcomb, 1983). In addition to R. enganus and R. adustus , there is a single specimen of R. tiomanicus ( USNM 140975) collected on Pulau Enggano.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Rattus

Loc

Rattus enganus Miller 1906

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Rattus enganus

Miller 1906: 821
1906
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