Biodiversity of Cyprus by NGO Protection of the Natural Heritage and the Biodiversity of Cyprus: Κοινός καστανός αρουραίος - Brown rat - Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769)

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Λίστα των θηλαστικών της Κύπρου - List of mammals of Cyprus

Τρωκτικά: Τα πιο μισητά θηλαστικά της Κύπρου - Του Γιώργου Κωνσταντίνου - Εφημερίδα πολίτης 3/11/2019

Τα 31 θηλαστικά της Κύπρου (Web TV) - Του Γιώργου Κωνσταντίνου - Εφημερίδα πολίτης 20/5/2018

First mtDNA Sequences and Body Measurements for Rattus norvegicus from the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus. Eleftherios Hadjisterkotis 1 , George Konstantinou 2 , Daria Sanna 3,*, Monica Pirastru 3 and Paolo Mereu 3

THE FIRST RECORD OF RATTUS NORVEGICUS ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS AND THE EXPECTED EFFECT ON AGRICULTURE AND LOCAL BIOTA - Proceedings of the X International Scientific Agricultural Symposium “Agrosym 2019”

The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat, Parisian rat, water rat, or wharf rat, is one of the best known and most common rats.

One of the largest muroids, it is a brown or grey rodent with a head and body length of up to 28 cm (11 in) long, and a tail slightly shorter than that. It weighs between 140 and 500 g (4.9 and 17.6 oz). Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America, making it, by at least this particular definition, the most successful mammal on the planet alongside humans. With rare exceptions, the brown rat lives wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas.

Selective breeding of the brown rat has produced the fancy rat as a pet, as well as the laboratory rat – the white rats used as model organisms in biological research.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rat