Norway Rat - Brong Rat
Rattus norvegicus
Summary 4
The brown rat, common rat, street rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, brown Norway rat, Norwegian rat, wharf rat (Rattus norvegicus), or hood rat is one of the best known and most common rats.
Associations 5
Norway rats are excellent competitors and will readily drive out competing rat species, such as Rattus rattus. Because of their foraging habits, Norway rats act as seed dispersers. Their burrows also tend to aerate the soil. As prey, they help to sustain predator populations. Norway rats are commensal species with humans.
Ecosystem Impact: disperses seeds; soil aeration
Mutualist Species:
- humans (Homo sapiens)
Sources and Credits
- (c) Mark Philpott, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/fftang/3648357326/
- (c) Tocekas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Rattus_norvegicus_2.jpg
- (c) Roland zh, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arboretum_Z%C3%BCrich_-_Rattus_norvegicus_-fraglich-_2014-09-27_19-31-56_(P7800).JPG
- Adapted by Paul Braun from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattus_norvegicus
- (c) The Regents of the University of Michigan and its licensors, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/31419822
More Info
- taxon page
- Animal Diversity Web
- ASM Mammal Diversity Database
- Atlas of Living Australia
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- CalPhotos
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- iNaturalist Mammal Working Group
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- NBN Atlas
- Rat identification in New Zealand
- VertNet
- 日本のレッドデータ検索システム
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