Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Rattus rattus

  • Author and date of publication

    (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • Preferred Common name

    Black Rat

  • Other Common Names

    Roof rat

  • Date Identified

    13/10/2015

  • Identified By

    Phoebe Burns - Museum Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Male

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: Frozen, Fixative treatment: ethanol 70%, Medium: ethanol 70%

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Liver, Preservative: ethanol 70%

  • Date of preparation

    13/10/2015

  • Date Collected From

    13/10/2015

  • Date Collected To

    13/10/2015

  • Collected By

    Phoebe Burns - Museum Victoria

  • Sampling Method

    salvage

  • Date Visited From

    13/10/2015

  • Date Visited To

    12/10/2015

  • 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

  • Nearest Named Place

    Yanakie Isthmus, Wilsons Promontory National Park

  • Precise Location

    Back Drift Tk, approx 500m North of junction with Grasslands Tk

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    Collector

  • Georeference Protocol

    gps

  • Georeference Date

    2015-10-13T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Phoebe Burns - Museum Victoria