• Genus name: Rattus
  • Species name: rattus
  • Subspecies name: rattus

You'd actually say it as R. rattus rattus or Rattus r. rattus.

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago

A. The common brown rat is named Rattus norvegicus

B. Carl Linneaus was Swedish (born in Råshult, near Älmhult, Krononberg County, Småland; died in Hammarby).

C. Your rattus norvegicus was named so by John Berkenhout (English, born in Leeds), who believed the rats migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728. (Source: Berkenhout, John (1769). Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1. London: Printed for P. Elmsly (Successor to Mr. Vaillant). p. 5.)

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