Specimen information:

• Catalog number: MZB 95-0421
• Scientific name : Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769)
• Common name: Brown Rat
• Element: skull
• Collecting date: 23/02/1994
• Acquisition source: Dpt.Bio.Cel.lular i Fisiologia
• Acquisition Date: 24/02/1994

Information about the species:

Chordata ,Vertebrata ,Mammalia ,Rodentia ,Muridae ,Rattus ,Rattus norvegicus

Description:

The Brown Rat is an opportunistic omnivore that feeds on anything it can find but above all on cereals and seeds, worms, insects and other invertebrates, and even cardboard, bones and bee wax. It skull is large and pointed, robust and angular, and has large and continuously growing incisors but no canine teeth or pre-molars. Its dental formula is I 1/1, C 0/0, P 0/0, M 3/3.

More data:

Related 3D images:

Information about 3D image:

• Picture Author: Joan Ramon Mauri Lisa
• Picture date: 12/04/2017
• Number of polygons: 462.6k
• Number of vertex: 231.7k