Bibliography for Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
• 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.
• Aplin, K.P., Chesser, T. & Have, J. 2003. Evolutionary biology of the genus Rattus: profile of an archetypal rodent pest. In, Singleton, G.R., Hinds, L.A., Krebs, C.K. & Spratt, D.M. (eds). Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
• Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Adams, M. & Cole, S.R. 1981. Genetical relationships among Australian rodents (Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 289-303
• Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. 1994. Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 251-275
• Collett, R. 1897. On a collection of mammals from north and north-west Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 317-336 pl. 23 [1 Aug. 1897]
• Cooper, N.K. 1994. Identification of Pseudomys albocinereus, P. occidentalis, P. shortridgei, Rattus rattus and R. fuscipes using footpad patterns. Western Australian Naturalist 19: 279-283
• Copson, G.R. 1986. The diet of the introduced rodents Mus musculus L. and Rattus rattus L. on subantarctic Macquarie Island. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 441-445
• Cowan, P.E. 1981. Early growth and development of roof rats, Rattus rattus L. Mammalia 45: 239-250
• Cox, M.P.G., Dickman, C.R. & Cox, W.G. 2000. Use of habitat by the black rat (Rattus rattus) at North Head, New South Wales: an observational experimental study. Austral Ecology 25: 375-385
• Dunstan, C.E. & Fox, B.J. 1996. The effects of fragmentation and disturbance of rainforest on ground-dwelling small mammals on the Robertson Plateau, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Biogeography 23: 187-201
• Ellerman, J.R. 1951. Order Rodentia in Ellerman, J.R. & Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. London : British Museum 456-712 pp.
• Gemmeke, von H. & Niethammer, J. 1984. Zur Taxonomie der Gattung Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 49: 104-116
• Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1803. Catalogue des Mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 272 pp. [publication date established from Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, J., Prévost, F. & Pucheran. 1951. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue Méthodique de la Collection des Mammifères de la Collection des Oiseaux et des Collections Annexes. Paris : Gide & Baudry xv+x 96 pp. [v of introduction]]
• Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 13.
• Gray, J.E. 1837. Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum Collection. Magazine of Natural History ns 1: 577-587 [Date published Nov. 1837: publication date established from Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls [3 Nov. 1888]]
• Higgins, E.T. & Petterd, W.F. 1883. Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Antechini and Muridae inhabiting Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 171-176 1 pl. [publication date established from Anon. 1953. Annual Report, 1952. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 87: ii–viii [vi]]
• Hinton, M.A.C. 1916. A History of British Mammals. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 18–19.
• Hinton, M.A.C. 1918. Scientific results from the Mammal Survey No. XVIII. Report on the house rats of India, Burma and Ceylon. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 126: 59-88
• Hinton, M.A.C. (as Barrett-Hamilton, G.E.H. & Hinton, M.A.C.) 1916. A History of British Mammals. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 19 601-648 pp. 33-34 pls.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
• Longman, H.A. 1916. Notes on classification of Common rodents with list of Australian species. Commonwealth of Australia Quarantine Service. Service Publication Number 8. Melbourne : Govt. Printer 28 pp. 8 pls.
• Lönnberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. II. Mammals from Queensland. 1. List of mammals. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(2): 3-11 [18 Jan. 1916]
• 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]
• Mallick, S.A. 1992. Urine-marking in three species of Rattus. Wildlife Research 19: 89-93
• Niethammer, J. 1975. Zur Taxonomic und Ausbrietungsgeschichte der Hausratte (Rattus rattus). Zoologischer Anzeiger 194: 405-415
• 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
• Pouliquen, O., Leishman, M. & Redhead, T.D. 1989. Effects of radio collars on wild mice (Mus domesticus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 1607-1609
• Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1814. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de M. r. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814. Ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palermo : Royale Typographie Militaire 55 pp. + errata.
• Ramsay, E.P. 1882. Description of a supposed new species of rat from the interior of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6: 763-765 [publication date established from Fletcher, J.J. 1896. On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's Proceedings. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 2 10: 533–536 [535]]
• Rode, P. 1945. Catalogue des types de mammifères du Museéum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Ordre des rongeurs (Suite). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 17: 24-31
• Schwartz, E. & Schwartz, H.K. 1967. A monograph of the Rattus rattus Group. Escuela Nacinal Ciencia Biologicas Mexico 14: 79-178
• 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
• Thomas, O. 1911. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1911: 120-158
• Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls.
• Yosida, T.H. 1980. Cytogenetics of the Black Rat. Karyotype evolution and species differentiation. Tokyo : Univ. Tokyo Press xiii 256 pp.

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