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--> FAMILY Muridae
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--> GENUS Rattus
SPECIES Rattus tawitawiensis
Author: | Musser and Heaney, 1985. | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 2818: 5. | Common Name: | Tawitawi Forest Rat | Type Locality: | Philippines, Sulu Arch., Tawitawi Isl, Batu Batu. | Distribution: | Greater Sulu Faunal Region. Known only from Tawitawi Isl in S part of Sulu Arch. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Rattus rattus species group. Still recorded by only three specimens. Phylogenetic affinities unclear; in some traits resembles Sulawesian R. hoffmanni and members of the Rattus palmarum-burrus-simalurensis-lugens clusters on the Nicobar, Simalur, and Mentawai islands more closely than any described Rattus from the Indo-Australian region (Musser and Heaney, 1985). |
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