| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Muridae
- ----- species: rattus rattus
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| Characteristics: | omnivore; length: 37cm, tail-length: 20cm; grey-brown to black back, underside white to grey, naked ears, associated with human dwellings |
| Countries: |
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT1003
- Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1006
- Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
- AT1314
- Nama Karoo
- AT1315
- Namib desert
- AT1316
- Namibian savanna woodlands
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| References: | Stuart and Stuart 2007: 126 |
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