- Sikkim Rat
Taxobox
name = Sikkim Rat
status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Muridae
genus = "Rattus "
species = "R. andamanensis"
binomial = "Rattus andamanensis"
binomial_authority = (Blyth, 1860)
synonyms = "sikkimensis" Hinton, 1919The Sikkim Rat ("Rattus andamanensis") is a species ofrodent in theMuridae family.It is found in
Bhutan ,Cambodia ,China ,India ,Laos ,Myanmar ,Nepal ,Thailand , andVietnam . Young are called, "kittens", "nestlings", "pinkie" or "pups". Females are called, "does". Males are called "bucks". A group of rats is called a "colony", "hoarde", "pack", "plague" or "swarm". [* [http://www.thewebsiteofeverything.com/animals/mammals/Rodentia/Muridae/Rattus/Rattus-sikkimensis.html www.thewebsiteofeverything.com] ] The rat's coloring is brownish upperparts and a white underside [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-852808/Himalayan-field-rat Encyclopedia Brittanica Online] ]References
* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19361/all Rattus sikkimensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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