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A rat in a suburb of Vancouver Skeleton of a black rat (Rattus rattus) on display at the Museum of Osteology. The best-known rat species are the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). This group, generally known as the Old World rats or true rats, originated in Asia.
Malayan field rat; Malayan porcupine; Maxomys tajuddinii; Mentawai long-tailed giant rat; Mentawai rat; Mentawi flying squirrel; Minahassa ranee mouse; Mirza's eastern moss rat; Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat; Mountain giant Sunda rat; Müller's giant Sunda rat; Musschenbroek's spiny rat
Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, slightly north of the town of Ruteng in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara.The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L. Verhoeven.
The giant naked-tailed rat (Uromys anak) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in West Papua , Indonesia and Papua New Guinea . It lives in tropical forests, wetlands, and in degraded forests.
Indonesian ratsnake (Coelognathus subradiatus) in Baucau District, East Timor. Coelognathus is a genus of seven species of rat snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae . The species, which are native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, were formerly assigned to the genus Elaphe .
The genus is monotypic, consisting of the species Paucidentomys vermidax, or the edented Sulawesi rat. The Latin name may also be translated to its other common name " few-toothed worm-eating rat ", referring to the fact that they have only two teeth and may live exclusively on a diet of earthworms .
The Japen rat (Rattus jobiensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in Yapen, Biak-Supiori, and Owi islands of West Papua, Indonesia. References [ edit ]