Rattus nitidus
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Rattus nitidus (Hodgson, 1845). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 15:267.
TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal.
DISTRIBUTION: Records on mainland Southeast Asia are from S China (including Hainan Isl), Vietnam, Laos, N Thailand, Burma, India (Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Kumaun), Bangladesh, and Nepal; these probably represent the indigenous range. Records east of the continental shelf are from Sulawesi, Luzon Isl in the Philippines, Seram Isl in the Moluccas, the Vogelkop Peninsula of Irian Jaya, and the Palau isls; this range likely represents introductions mediated by human agency (Musser and Holden, 1991).
SYNONYMS: aequicaudalus, guhai, horeites, manuselae, obsoletus, rahengis, ruber, rubricosa, subditivus, vanheurni (see Ellerman, 1941; Khajuria et al., 1977; J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a, b; Musser, 1981c; Musser and Holden, 1991; and Taylor et al., 1982).
COMMENTS: Ellerman (1941) listed pyctoris as a synonym of R. nitidus , but that name was based on a specimen of R. turkestanicus. Phallic morphology described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing phylogenetic relationships among Chinese murines.
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References
- Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Khajuria, H., Y. Chaturvedi, and D. K. Ghoshal. 1977. Catalogue Mammaliana. An annotated catalogue of the type specimens of mammals in the collections of the Zoological Survey of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 7: 1 - 45.
- Musser, G. G. 1981 c. The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 169: 67 - 176.
- Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and H. M. Van Deusen. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 173: 177 - 336.
- Yang An-feng and Fang Li-xiang. 1988. [Phallic morphology of 13 species of the family Muridae from China, with comments on its taxonomic significance.] Acta Theriologica Sinica, 8: 275 - 287 (in Chinese with English summary).