Australian Pale Field Rat
Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904)
Also calledBlasse Australische Feldratte (deu) · Blasse Feldratte (deu) · Rat de Tunney (fra) · australianrotta (fin) · krysa Tunneyova (ces) · szczur blady (pol) · Бледная полевая крыса (rus) · جرذ الحقل الشاحب (ara) · タンネイクマネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Novit. Zool. vol.11 p.223
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Rattus fuscipes species group. This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti (Baverstock et al., 1983 a, 1986). Revised by Taylor and Horner (1973) and reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981), Mahoney and Richardson (1988), and Braithwaite and Baverstock (1995).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also occurs on offshore islands. Recorded historically (holotype of austrinus probably from Kangaroo Isl; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988: 188), but otherwise only by subfossils (Robinson et al., 2000) from South Australia. Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see Taylor and Horner, 1973: 89; Watts and Aslin, 1981; Braithwaite and Baverstock, 1995: 663).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti (Baverstock et al., 1983 a, 1986).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also recorded from offshore islands. Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see map in Taylor and Horner, 1973: 89, and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439226.