THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Muridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Spiny Seram Island RatRattus feliceus Thomas, 1920 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mount Giluwe RatRattus giluwensis Hill, 1960 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hainald's Flores Island RatRattus hainaldi Kitchener, How & Maharadatunkamsi, 1991 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hoffmann's Sulawesi RatRattus hoffmanni (Matschie, 1901) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hoogerwerf's Sumatran RatRattus hoogerwerfi Chasen, 1939 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yapen Island RatRattus jobiensis Rümmler, 1935 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sumatran Mountain RatRattus korinchi (Robinson & Kloss, 1916) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Losea RatRattus losea (Swinhoe, 1871) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mentawai Archipelago RatRattus lugens (Miller, 1903) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian Swamp RatRattus lutreolus (J. E. Gray, 1841) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Maclear's Christmas Island RatRattus macleari (Thomas, 1887) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Marmoset Xanthurus RatRattus marmosurus Thomas, 1921 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindoro Mountain RatRattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lampobatang Sulawesi RatRattus mollicomulus Tate & Archbold, 1935 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sri Lankan Mountain RatRattus montanus Phillips, 1932 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern New Guinea RatRattus mordax (Thomas, 1904) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Halmahara RatRattus morotaiensis Kellogg, 1945 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Christmas Island RatRattus nativitatis (Thomas, 1889) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Eastern New Guinea Mountain RatRattus niobe (Thomas, 1906) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan Field RatRattus nitidus (Hodgson, 1845) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown RatRattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Arianus' New Guinea Mountain RatRattus omichlodes (Misonne, 1979) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Osgood's Vietnamese RatRattus osgoodi Musser & Newcomb, 1985 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Car Nicobar RatRattus palmarum (Zelebor, 1869) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Peleng Island Xanthurus RatRattus pelurus Sody, 1941 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pocock's New Guinea Highland RatRattus pococki (Ellerman, 1941) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Large New Guinea Spiny RatRattus praetor (Thomas, 1888) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan RatRattus pyctoris (Hodgson, 1845) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ranjini's RatRattus ranjiniae Agrawal & Ghosal, 1969 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black RatRattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Richardson's New Guinea Mountain RatRattus richardsoni (Tate, 1949) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southeastern Xanthurus RatRattus salocco Tate & Archbold, 1935 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| New Ireland Forest RatRattus sanila Flannery & White, 1991 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Sahyadris Forest RatRattus satarae Hinton, 1918 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Simalur Archipelago RatRattus simalurensis (Miller, 1903) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Canefield RatRattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Stein's New Guinea RatRattus steini Rümmler, 1935 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andaman Archipelago RatRattus stoicus (Miller, 1902) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Oriental House RatRattus tanezumi (Temminck, 1845) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tawitawi Forest RatRattus tawitawiensis Musser & Heaney, 1985 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Timor Forest RatRattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin & Boeadi, 1991 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Malaysian Field RatRattus tiomanicus (Miller, 1900) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian Pale Field RatRattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Van Deusen's New Guinea Mountain RatRattus vandeuseni (Taylor & Calaby, 1982) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| New Guinea slender RatRattus verecundus (Thomas, 1904) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian Long-haired RatRattus villosissimus (Waite, 1898) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northeastern Xanthurus RatRattus xanthurus (Gray, 1867) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mesic Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys dilectus (de Winton, 1897) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio (Sparrman, 1784) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tyrrhenian Field RatRhagamys orthodon (Hensel, 1856) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.