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Ship rats Rattus rattus on the Shiant Islands, Hebrides, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2001

G. Key ,
A. H. Fielding ,
M. J. Goulding ,
R. S. Holm  and
B. Stevens-Wood
G. Key
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, U.K. Present address Central Science Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture food and Fisheries, Sand Hutton, York YO4 1LZ, U.K.
A. H. Fielding
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, U.K.
M. J. Goulding
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, U.K.
R. S. Holm
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, U.K.
B. Stevens-Wood
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, U.K.
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Abstract

The ship rat Rattus rattus was once widespread throughout the U.K. It is now an endangered species with an estimated 1000 or fewer individuals present in the U.K. and the species is listed in the red data book for British mammals (Morris, 1993). However, it is listed under schedule 9 of the U.K. Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) as a non-native species that should not be released into the wild.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Journal of Zoology , Volume 245 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 228 - 233
Copyright
© 1998 The Zoological Society of London

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