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Rattus lutreolus
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Rattus lutreolus (J. E. Gray, 1841). In G. Gray, App. C in Jour. Two Exped. Aust., 11:409.
TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Hunter River, Moscheto Isl (locality of lectotype; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988).
DISTRIBUTION: Tasmania; coastal and subcoastal habitats from vicinity of Adelaide in SE South Australia east and north through Victoria, New South Wales to SE Queensland; isolated populations occur in N Queensland (see maps in Taylor and Horner, 1973:53, and Watts and Aslin, 1981:231).
SYNONYMS: cambricus, imbil, lacus, pachyurus, petterdi, tetragonurus, vellerosus, velutinus.
COMMENTS: Watts and Aslin (1981) provided a comprehensive discussion of the species. See Taylor and Calaby (1988b, Mammalian Species, 299).
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 655, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- J. E. Gray
- Species
- lutreolus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus lutreolus (Gray, 1841) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274.
- Taylor, J. M., and B. E. Horner. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 150: 1 - 130.
- Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.
- Taylor, J. M., and J. H. Calaby. 1988 b. Rattus lutreolus. Mammalian Species, 299: 1 - 7.