Turkestan Rat

Taxobox
name = Turkestan Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Rattus"
species_group = "R. norvegicus"
species = "R. pyctoris"
binomial = "Rattus pyctoris"
binomial_authority = (Hodgson, 1845)
synonyms = "turkestanicus" (Satunin, 1903)The Turkestan Rat ("Rattus pyctoris") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, and Pakistan.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19370/all Rattus turkestanicus] . [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.