Rattus norvegicus (rodent)

Mass: 300 g based on Baglan and Catzeflis 2014

Abundance: 0.04 to 64.41% (median 4.00%)

Latitudinal range: -39.8° to 49.4°

Habitats: (4), Mediterranean woodland (2), desert/xeric shrubland (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (7), temperate coniferous forest (1), temperate savanna (1), temperate wetland (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (3), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (9), tropical/subtropical savanna (1)

Biogeographic distribution: Palearctic, East Asia

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Found in 30 samples

Algeria: Kehailia and Benaouali

Argentina: Santa Fe City, Buenos Aires Province

Chile: Burca, Melefquén (May)

China: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, Duling, Shuangta (Holocene), Gouwan (Holocene), Muzhuzhuliang (Holocene)

France: Boult-aux-Bois (2010), Briquenay (2010), Massereau

Indonesia: Malalayang, Manggar Baru, Jakarta, Melong Asihm

Iran: Chabahar County

Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur, Carey Island

Nicaragua: Siuna (mammals, secondary forest)

North Korea: Chongphadae Cave (Late Pleistocene)

Philippines: San Jose

Syria: Yahmool Agricultural Research Station

Taiwan: Taichung City

Thailand: Bothong District, Buriram Province (house)

United States: Memphis, Glenn Dale, Raleigh-Durham

Size measurements:
body mass300 g(N = 1)based on Baglan and Catzeflis 2014

See also Rattus, Rattus andamanensis, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus everetti, Rattus exulans, Rattus fuscipes, Rattus haasi, Rattus hoffmanni, Rattus leucopus, Rattus losea, Rattus lutreolus, Rattus marmosurus, Rattus mordax, Rattus niobe, Rattus nitidus, Rattus omichlodes, Rattus praetor, Rattus pyctoris, Rattus rattus, Rattus richardsoni, Rattus sordidus, Rattus sp., Rattus spp., Rattus steini, Rattus tanezumi, Rattus tiomanicus, Rattus tunneyi, Rattus verecundus, Rattus villosissimus