Rattus lugens
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Rattus lugens (Miller, 1903). Smithson. Mise. Coll., 45:33.
TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Mentawai, Pulau Utara Pagai (North Pagai Isl).
DISTRIBUTION: Islands of Siberut, Sipora, Pagai Utara, and Pagai Selattan in the Mentawai Archipelago off coast of SW Sumatra; these islands lie on a slender peninsula of the continental shelf.
SYNONYMS: mentawai.
COMMENTS: Chasen (1940) listed lugens and mentawai each as a subspecies of R. rattus , but the Mentawai endemic is a morphologically distinctive species closely related to R. adustus from Enggano Isl, and to the R. tiomanicus complex (Musser, 1986; Musser and Califia, 1982; Musser and Heaney, 1985). Part of the rodent fauna endemic to Mentawi Archipelago (see account of Leopoldamys siporanus).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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References
- Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.
- Musser, G. G., and D. Califia. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 106. Identities of rats from Pulau Maratua and other islands off East Borneo. American Museum Novitates, 2726: 1 - 30.