Bibliography for Rattus exulans (Peale, 1848)

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
• Alston, E.R. 1877. On the rodents and marsupials collected by the Rev. G. Brown in Duke-of-York Island, New Britain, and New Ireland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 123-127 pls 18-19 [publication date established from Alston, E.R. 1878. Supplementary note on rodents and marsupials from Duke-of-York Island and New Ireland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 743–744 [743]]
• Aplin, K.P., Brown, P.R., Jacob, J., Krebs, C.J. & Singleton, G.R. 2004. Field Methods for Rodent Studies in Asia and the Pacific. ACIAR Monograph No. 100. Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
• Bunn, T.J. & Craig, T.J. 1989. Population cycles of Rattus exulans: population changes, diet, and food availability. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 16: 409-418
• Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp.
• Dwyer, P.D. 1978. A study of Rattus exulans (Peale) (Rodentia: Muridae) in the New Guinea Highlands. Australian Wildlife Research 5: 221-248
• Gemmeke, von H. & Niethammer, J. 1984. Zur Taxonomie der Gattung Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 49: 104-116
• Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]
• Matisoo-Smith, E. & Robins, J.H. 2004. Origins and dispersals of Pacific peoples: evidence from mtDNA phylogenies of the Pacific rat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101: 9167-9172
• Pasteur, N., Worms, J., Tohari, M. & Iskandar, D. 1982. Genetic differentiation in Indonesian and French rats of the subgenus Rattus. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 10: 191-196
• Peale, T.R. 1848. United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Mammalia and Ornithology. Philadelphia : C. Sherman (Printer) 8 xxv pp. 17-338.
• Storer, T.I. (ed.) 1962. Pacific Island Rat Ecology Report of a study made on Ponape and adjacent islands 1955–1958. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 225: 1-274
• Taylor, J.M., Calaby, J.H. & Van Deusen, H.M. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 173: 177-336
• Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150: 1-130
• Watts, C.H.S. 1995. Pacific Rat Rattus exulans. 650 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls.
• Wodzicki, K. & Taylor, R.H. 1984. Distribution and status of the polynesian rat Rattus exulans. Acta Zoologica Fennica 172: 99-101

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