Philippine forest rat
| Philippine forest rat | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Rattus |
| Species: | R. everetti |
| Binomial name | |
| Rattus everetti (Günther, 1879) | |
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The Philippine forest rat (Rattus everetti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in the Philippines, and is located throughout the archipelago. The scientific name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett. R. everetti is widespread throughout its range and feeds on a diet of fruit, seeds, worms and insects.[2] There are no major threats to the species, which has been found to be competitively superior to introduced Rattus species in disturbed and undisturbed forest habitat.
References
- ↑ Heaney, L.; Alviola, P.; Duya, M.R.; Tabao, M.; Gonzalez, J.C. & Balete, D. (2016). "Rattus everetti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T19329A115146445. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T19329A22441260.en. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "Philippine forest rat | rodent".
- Baillie, J. 1996. Rattus everetti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.