Ship rats Rattus rattus on the Shiant Islands, Hebrides, Scotland

Autor: G. Key, Alan H. Fielding, R. S. Holm, B. Stevens‐Wood, M. J. Goulding
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Journal of Zoology. 245:228-233
ISSN: 1469-7998
0952-8369
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1998.tb00095.x
Popis: The ship rat Rattus rattus was once widespread throughout the U.K. It is now an endangered species with an estimated 1000 or fewer individuals present in the U.K. and the species is listed in the red data book for British mammals (Morris, 1993). However, it is listed under schedule 9 of the U.K. Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) as a non-native species that should not be released into the wild.
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