Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1471

Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991

Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991 , Rec. West. Aust. Mus ., 15: 557.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Pulau Flores, Gunung Ranakah, 1300 m , above Kampong Robo, Desa Longko, 8 km SSE Ruteng.

Vernacular Names: Hainald's Flores Island Rat.

Distribution: Known only from Flores Isl.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Rattus species group unresolved. Described from two specimens ( Kitchener et al., 1991 c), and later found to be common in forest habitats (Kitchener and Yani, 1998; Kitchener et al., 1998). Phylogenetic affinities uncertain; placement in Rattus originally provisional (Kitchener et al., 1991), results from albumin immunology suggest transfer to either Bunomys or Komodomys ( Watts and Baverstock, 1994 b) , but electrophoretic data indicate R. hainaldi to be equidistant from the Komodomys-Rattus timorensis clade of Nusa Tenggara clade and true Rattus (K. Aplin, in litt., 2004).