🐭Black rat
クマネズミ（熊鼠、英: black rat、学名：Rattus rattus）は、 齧歯目ネズミ科クマネズミ属に属する大型のネズミの一種。同属のドブネズミ、小型のハツカネズミと並んで、人家やその周辺に棲息するネズミ類（家ネズミ）の一つ。江戸時代の日本ではクマネズミのことを「田ねずみ」と呼んでいた。 背中の毛が蒔絵筆に使われてきたと言われてきたが、こちらはドブネズミのものであった。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 0.2 kg
- Body length
- 0.2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 4.2 years
Everything we know about the Black rat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.2 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.2 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.2 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass1.82 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan4.2 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4.2 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length1.5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity115 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation22 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 22 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 6COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 7.3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1,454 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Black rat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyMuridae
- ›genusRattus
- ›speciesRattus rattus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyMuridae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyMuridae
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