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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is recorded widely throughout Indochina, in Thailand and Koh Samui off the east coast of peninsular Thailand, Cambodia, central Lao PDR, and Viet Nam (including islands of Cham and Thô Chu off the coast of southern Viet Nam). Then in the Sunda Shelf from the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Kangean island, and Bali. It has been introduced in the Lesser Sunda Islands (on the islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sangeang, Komodo, Rintja, Flores, Adonara, Lembata, Alor, Sumba, Timor, and Tanimbar), and in the Philippines (Cebu, Luzon, Mindoro, Mindoro, Negros), Sulawesi and New Guinea (Musser and Carleton 2005). Corbet and Hill (1992), followed by Helgen (2003), recorded the species from Seram in the Moluccas, but Musser and Carleton (2005) could not substantiate its occurrence there.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Indonesia; Lao Peoples Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Viet Nam
Additional data:
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Population [top]
Population: This species is extremely abundant near human habitation and settlement.
Current Population Trend: Stable
Additional data:
? Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: Its natural habitat was probably swampy grasslands, but today it occurs in rice fields, grasslands, and plantations (Payne et al. 1985) and is broadly commensal with humans.
Systems: Terrestrial
Generation Length (years): 1
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): There are no major threats to the species.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: It is present in several protected areas across its range.
Errata [top]
Errata reason: This errata assessment has been created because the map was accidentally left out of the version published previously.
Citation: Ruedas, L., & Aplin, K. 2016. Rattus argentiventer. (errata version published in 2017) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T19322A115146014. Downloaded on 14 June 2017.
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