Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 54

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D0A37EA-8D5B-44D9-B2CC-8161D1E4AF54

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121296

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A-7E6D-FFE4-FF42-FE78B0D510FB

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769)
status

 

37. Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: R. n. norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) .

Distribution: Despite the occurrence of a few records only, this invasive species seems to be abundant with an extremely wide range in almost all habitats (also human settlements) across the country. ( Fig. 43 View FIGURE 43 )

Previous records: Damascus ( Trouessart & Kollmann 1923), Kharabow ( Shehab 2005), Yahmool ( Shehab & Charabi 2006).

Recent records: Deir ez-Zor, Mheimideh (2009), Al-Kadmous (2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Rattus

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