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Rats are rodents. Fancy rats are called rattus norvegicus, and wild rats are called rattus rattus.
Common rats belong to the genus rattus. They also belong to the species rattus. Their scientific name would then be Rattus rattus.
Rattus is the genus to which all 'true rats' belong.
Where true rats belong
Mostly Brown/Sewer Rats. Some Rattus Rattus would've been about too.
There are over 60 species of rats, including the most common species which is the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) and the black rat (Rattus rattus).
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Rattus Rattus is the black or ship rat (the rat whose fleas caused the plague), but the rats we have in this country, and what all fancy rats are descended from is Rattus norvegicus, which is the brown or Norway rat.
Trench Rats can refer to the Nation Organization of Trench Rats, a fraternal organization of veterans who served in the trenches in various wars, or to the black rats (Rattus rattus) and brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) feeding on food scraps and decaying corpses of unburied soldiers in WWI and WWII.
Rattus Rattus is the black rat or roof rat.Rattus Norvegicus is the brown rat or Norway rat, and is the more common of the two species worldwide. This type of rat is typically a little larger than rattus rattus, and has slightly smaller ears.follow me on twitter @iamryercxD
We call them rats because their scientific name is Rattus norvegicus. All the pet and lab rats are belonging to this species. The tiny black colour, house hold rats are under the species of Rattus rattus.The strain name depends on what kind of rat it is.l
A wharf rat is another name for a brown rat. A rat is a "rodent" and in the "Muridae" family and all rats are in the Genus "Rattus" A black rat is Rattus Rattus. A brown rat (also fancy/ lab rats) is Rattus Norvegicus