Malaysian Field Rat – Rattus tiomanicus

Rattus tiomanicusMiller, 1900

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Rattus rattus species group. Reviewed by Musser and Califia (1982), who also summarized and provided references documenting the incorrect historical association of tiomanicus and the other synonyms listed here as subspecies of R. rattus. They also pointed out that careful study of inter-island variation among named forms of the R. tiomanicus complex is necessary before relationships among the insular populations can be discerned; more than one species may be represented in what is now viewed as R. tiomanicus. Miller’s (1942) blangorum from the Aceh region of N Sumatra, for example, was originally described as a species, then included in R. tiomanicus (Musser and Califia, 1982), and is here reinstated as a separate species (see account of R. blangorum).Rattus mindorensis from Mindoro Isl in the Philippines; R. simalurensis from the islands of Babi, Lasia, Siumat, and Simalule, off... [truncated]

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.