TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoTIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattusen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1380arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1376arrow-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 · 4 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-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoA. The common brown rat is named Rattus norvegicus B. Carl Linneaus was Swedish (born in Råshult, near Älmhult, Krononberg County, Småland; died in Hammarby). C. Your rattus norvegicus was named so by John Berkenhout (English, born in Leeds), who believed the rats migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728. (Source: Berkenhout, John (1769). Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1. London: Printed for P. Elmsly (Successor to Mr. Vaillant). p. 5.)
A. The common brown rat is named Rattus norvegicus
B. Carl Linneaus was Swedish (born in Råshult, near Älmhult, Krononberg County, Småland; died in Hammarby).
C. Your rattus norvegicus was named so by John Berkenhout (English, born in Leeds), who believed the rats migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728. (Source: Berkenhout, John (1769). Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1. London: Printed for P. Elmsly (Successor to Mr. Vaillant). p. 5.)