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Old World Rats
Rattus
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 72 known species

Brown Rat
speciesRattus norvegicus

Black Rat
speciesRattus rattus

Australian Bush Rat
speciesRattus fuscipes

Australian Swamp Rat
speciesRattus lutreolus

Oriental House Rat
speciesRattus tanezumi

Polynesian Rat
speciesRattus exulans

Indochinese Forest Rat
speciesRattus andamanensis

Lesser Ricefield Rat
speciesRattus losea

Pale Field Rat
speciesRattus tunneyi

Long-haired Rat
speciesRattus villosissimus

Ricefield Rat
speciesRattus argentiventer

Malaysian Field Rat
speciesRattus tiomanicus

Canefield Rat
speciesRattus sordidus

Cape York Rat
speciesRattus leucopus

Sahyadris Forest Rat
speciesRattus satarae

Philippine Forest Rat
speciesRattus everetti

Kinabalu Rat
speciesRattus baluensis

Himalayan Field Rat
speciesRattus nitidus

Peleng Island Xanthurus Rat
speciesRattus pelurus

Northeastern Xanthurus Rat
speciesRattus xanthurus

Himalayan Rat
speciesRattus pyctoris

Andaman Rat
speciesRattus stoicus

Hoffmann’s Sulawesi Rat
speciesRattus hoffmanni

Mentawai Archipelago Rat
speciesRattus lugens

Little Indochinese Field Rat
speciesRattus sakeratensis

Koopman’s Peleng Island Rat
speciesRattus koopmani
Eastern Rat
speciesRattus mordax

Sula Archipelago Rat
speciesRattus elaphinus

Lore Lindu Xanthurus Rat
speciesRattus facetus
Timor Forest Rat
speciesRattus timorensis

Vogelkop Mountain Rat
speciesRattus arfakiensis

Dusky Rat
speciesRattus colletti

Sri Lankan Mountain Rat
speciesRattus montanus
Bonthain Rat
speciesRattus bontanus
Moss-forest Rat
speciesRattus niobe
Halmahera Rat
speciesRattus morotaiensis
Osgood’s Vietnamese Rat
speciesRattus osgoodi
Lampobatang Sulawesi Rat
speciesRattus mollicomulus

Glacier Rat
speciesRattus richardsoni

Southeastern Xanthurus Rat
speciesRattus salocco

Burnished Enggano Rat
speciesRattus adustus

Sumatran Mountain Rat
speciesRattus korinchi
Ranjini’s Field Rat
speciesRattus ranjiniae

Zelebor’s Nicobar Rat
speciesRattus palmarum
Hainald’s Flores Island Rat
speciesRattus hainaldi
Miller's Nicobar Rat
speciesRattus burrus
Small Spiny Rat
speciesRattus steini
Arianus's Rat
speciesRattus omichlodes
Pocock’s Highland Rat
speciesRattus pococki
Manus Island Spiny Rat
speciesRattus detentus
New Ireland Forest Rat
speciesRattus sanila
Talibu Island Rat
speciesRattus taliabuensis
Rattus ombirah
speciesRattus ombirah
Rattus halmaheraensis
speciesRattus halmaheraensis
Rattus feileri
speciesRattus feileri
Rattus ceramicus
speciesRattus ceramicus
Yapen Rat
speciesRattus jobiensis
Niken's Rat
speciesRattus nikenii
Simalur Archipelago Rat
speciesRattus simalurensis
Western New Guinea Mountain Rat
speciesRattus arrogans
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 44540.