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Southeastern xanthurus rat

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Southeastern xanthurus rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata]
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Rodentia (Small)
Family:
Muridae (Mouse-likes)
Genus:
Rattus

Rattus salocco is a rodent of the genus rattus. This species is known only from the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, 300 and 1500 m altitude. This animal belongs to the Rattus xanthurus group, which may be a separate sex. Although this species is usually considered a subspecies of rattus xanthurus, in 2005 a still unpublished article showing that R. salocco a separate species, most related to R. marmosurus .[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Mammal Species of the World. John Hopkin University Press.

References

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