Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Rodentia > Family: Muridae > Genus: Rattus > Species: Rattus rattus

Black rat - Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe	Least Concern (IUCN)
Most preferred habitats	cropland rivers and lakes urban
May also occur in	wetlands woodland and forest
The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species. The main focus of the EUNIS species component is to provide relevant information about the European species protected by Directives, Conventions and Agreements. The species assessed in the European Red Lists prepared by the IUCN for the European Commission are also included. See here what is Europe from a geographical point of view. Other resources available below may have more information.

Threat status Europe

Least Concern (IUCN)

Most preferred habitats

cropland
rivers and lakes
urban

May also occur in

wetlands
woodland and forest

The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species.

The main focus of the EUNIS species component is to provide relevant information about the European species protected by Directives, Conventions and Agreements. The species assessed in the European Red Lists prepared by the IUCN for the European Commission are also included.

See here what is Europe from a geographical point of view.

Other resources available below may have more information.

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Least Concern

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

Sources:

EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Not listed in legal texts

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Black rat	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Far Iswed	Maltese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Hausrat	Luxemburgish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Hausratte	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Házi patkány	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kodurott	Estonian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Krysa obecná	Czech	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Miu i zi i kanaleve	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Mustarotta	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Potkan tmavý	Slovak	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Rat noir	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Rata negra	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Ratazana-preta	Portuguese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Ratto nero	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Ship rat	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Sort rotte	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Svart råtta	Swedish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Svartrotta	Icelandic	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Svartrotte	Norwegian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Zwarte rat	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

No synonyms available.

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
NOBANIS: Rattus rattus	European Network on Invasive Alien Species
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

External data

No external data sets available for this species

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