Rattus turkestanicus
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Rattus turkestanicus (Satunin, 1903). Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 7:588.
TYPE LOCALITY: Kirghizia, Oshskaya Obi., Lenniskii p-h, Arslanbob (= "Assam-bob"; see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987).
DISTRIBUTION: Records are from Kirghizia, NE Iran, N and E Afghanistan, N Pakistan, N India (Kashmir, Sikkim), Nepal, and S China (Yunnan and Guangdong) (see Musser and Newcomb, 1985:15).
SYNONYMS: celsus, gilgitianus, khumbuensis, rattoides (Hodgson, 1845, not Pictet and Pictet, 1844), shigarus, vicerex (see Corbet, 1978c; Musser and Newcomb, 1985).
COMMENTS: Despite continued use of rattoides for this complex (Caldarini et al., 1989; Corbet, 1978c), it is a synonym of R. rattus (Schütter and Thonglongya, 1971). Three distinctive morphological, chromosomal, and geographic forms are included under turkestanicus (Caldarini et al., 1989; Niethammer and Martens, 1975) and were first recognized by Hinton (1922) who treated all three as species (R. turkestanicus, R. vicerex, and R. rattoides) but also suggested that each may instead be a welldifferentiated subspecies. Rattus turkestanicus and R. vicerex were reported to occur sympatrically in Kashmir (Chakraborty, 1983), but those identifications have to be verified. A careful systematic treatment is needed to determine whether the three groups represent species or geographic variants.
Oldest name for the complex is pyctoris (Hodgson, 1845; incorrectly listed as a synonym of R. nitidus by Ellerman, 1961) and would either replace turkestanicus if all samples represent a single species, or would identify Nepal and Sikkim populations.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Satunin
- Species
- turkestanicus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus turkestanicus (Satunin, 1903) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).
- Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1985. Definitions of Indochinese Rattus losea and a new species from Vietnam. American Museum Novitates, 1814: 1 - 32.
- Hodgson, B. H. 1845. On the rats, mice, and shrews of the central region of Nepal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 15: 266 - 270.
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Caldarini, G., E. Capanna, M. V. Civitelli, M. Corti, and A. Simonetta. 1989. Chromosomal evolution in the subgenus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae): Karyotype analysis of two species from the Indian subregion. Mammalia, 53: 77 - 83.
- Niethammer, J., and J. Martens. 1975. Die Gattungen Rattus und Maxomys in Afghanistan und Nepal. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 40: 325 - 355.
- Hinton, M. A. C. 1922. Scientific results from the mammal survey. No. 34. The house rats of Nepal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 28: 1056 - 1066.
- Chakraborty, S. 1983. Contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 38: 1 - 129.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884.