Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Rattus rattus

  • Author and date of publication

    (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • Preferred Common name

    Black Rat

  • Other Common Names

    Roof rat

  • Identified By

    Monique Winterhoff - Museum Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Male

  • Stage Or Age

    Subadult

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: tissue, Form: frozen

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Liver, Preservative: ethanol 70%, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Date of preparation

    15/08/2017

  • Collected By

    Richard Marchant

  • Sampling Method

    salvage

  • Date Visited From

    11/08/2016

  • Date Visited To

    11/08/2017

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Vertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    DNA Laboratory

  • Collecting Areas

    Tissue and DNA

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Country

    Australia

  • State

    Victoria

  • Precise Location

    North Melbourne, Wood Street

  • Latitude

    -37.7972

  • Longitude

    144.946

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    data provided with specimen(s)

  • Georeference Protocol

    estimated from Google maps

  • Georeference Date

    2017-08-17T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Laura E. Cook - Museums Victoria