We’re sorry, but GBIF doesn’t work properly without JavaScript enabled.
Our website has detected that you are using an outdated insecure browser that will prevent you from using the site. We suggest you upgrade to a modern browser.
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • GBIF API
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Occurrence snapshots
      • Hosted portals
      • Trends
  • How-to
    • Share data

      • Quick-start guide
      • Dataset classes
      • Data hosting
      • Standards
      • Become a publisher
      • Data quality
      • Data papers
    • Use data

      • Featured data use
      • Citation guidelines
      • GBIF citations
      • Citation widget
  • Tools
    • Publishing

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • Scientific Collections
      • Suggest a dataset
      • New data model ⭐️
    • Data access and use

      • Hosted portals
      • Data processing
      • Derived datasets
      • rgbif
      • pygbif
      • MAXENT
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF labs

      • Species matching
      • Name parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Community
    • Network

      • Participant network
      • Nodes
      • Publishers
      • Network contacts
      • Community forum
      • alliance for biodiversity knowledge
    • Volunteers

      • Mentors
      • Ambassadors
      • Translators
      • Citizen scientists
    • Activities

      • Capacity enhancement
      • Programmes & projects
      • Training and learning resources
      • Data Use Club
      • Living Atlases
  • About
    • Inside GBIF

      • What is GBIF?
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Implementation plan
      • Work Programme
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Release notes
      • Contacts
    • News & outreach

      • News
      • Newsletters and lists
      • Events
      • Awards
      • Science Review
      • Data use
  • User profile

Rattus exulans (Peale, 1848)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv. vol.8 p.47

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Rodentia
family
Muridae
genus
Rattus
species
Rattus exulans

Name

Synonyms
? exulans Peale, 1848
Epimys basilanus Hollister, 1913
Epimys calcis Hollister, 1911
Epimys exulans (Peale, 1848)
Epimys leucophaetus Hollister, 1913
Epimys mayonicus Hollister, 1913
Epimys ornatulus Hollister, 1913
Epimys querceti Hollister, 1911
Epimys stragulum Robinson & Kloss, 1916
Epimys vigoratus Hollister, 1913
Mus aemuli Thomas, 1896
Mus bocourti Milne-Edwards, 1872
Mus buruensis J.A.Allen, 1911
Mus clabatus Lyon, 1906
Mus concolor Blyth, 1859
Mus ephippium Jentink, 1880
Mus ephippium negrinus Thomas, 1898
Mus exulans (Peale, 1848)
Mus luteiventris J.A.Allen, 1910
Mus obscurus Miller, 1900
Homonyms
Rattus exulans (Peale, 1848)
Common names
Kleine Pazifikratte in language.
Little Rat in English
Little Rat in English
Maori rat in language.
Pacific Rat in English
Pacific Rat in English
Pacific Rat in English
Pacific Rat in English
Pacific rat in language.
Pazifik-Ratte in English
Polynesian Rat in English
Polynesian rat in language.
Polynesian rat in English
Polynesian rat in English
Polynesian rat in English
Polynesian rat in language.
Rat de Polynésie in English
Rata del Pacifico in English
kiore in language.
rat Polynésien in language.
rat du Pacifique in language.
tikus Polynesia in language.
Polynesian Rat in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 894-1531.
  3. NatureServe Explorer (2020cj), https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105550/Rattus_exulans
  4. Watts, Christopher H. S., and H. J. Aslin, 1981: null. The Rodents of Australia. ix + 321.
  5. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements Citation Code of Conduct Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
GBIF is a Global Core Biodata Resource