TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoTIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattusen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1379arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattusen.wikipedia.orgTheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square45linkfedilinkfile-text
Genus name: Rattus Species name: rattus Subspecies name: rattus You’d actually say it as R. rattus rattus or Rattus r. rattus.
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoMus musculus was the one I was thinking of. The -culus is just the diminutive suffix.
Mus musculus was the one I was thinking of. The -culus is just the diminutive suffix.