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Burnished Enggano Rat
Rattus adustus Sody, 1940
Also calledIndonesische Glattfellratte (deu) · Rat basané (fra) · Rata de la Isla de Enggano (spa) · ahavarotta (fin) · szczur ogorzały (pol) · Загорелая крыса (rus) · جرذ حروق الشمس (ara) · エンガノツヤクマネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Treubia vol.17 p.397
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
COMMENTS: Known only by the holotype. Although Sody (1940) described adustus as a species of Rattus, he later listed it as a subspecies of R. rattus in a section also containing lugens and mentaivai, populations endemic to the Mentawai islands (Sody, 1941). The Enggano rat is distinctive; in morphology and geographic proximity it is related to R. lugens (Musser and Heaney, 1985).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Pulau Enggano, off the coast of W Sumatra (and off the continental shelf), Kiojoh, sea level.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Muridae
conservation
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The Burnished Enggano Rat is in critical need for research because it is only known from the type specimen collected in 1920 and virtually nothing is known ofits ecology. It (and the EngganoIsland Rat) could be extinct. It is probably threatened by habitat loss because Enggano’s forests have been almost completely destroyed and competition with the Roof Rat (R. rattus).
Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439236.