Wiruk hitam
| Wiruk Hitam | |
|---|---|
Status pemuliharaan | |
 Kurang membimbangkan (IUCN 2.3)[1] | |
| Pengelasan saintifik | |
| Alam: | Animalia |
| Filum: | Chordata |
| Kelas: | Mamalia |
| Order: | Rodensia |
| Keluarga: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Bandicota |
| Spesies: | B. indica |
| Nama binomial | |
| Bandicota indica (Bechstein, 1800) | |
Wiruk Hitam (bahasa Inggeris: Greater Bandicoot Rat atau Large Bandicoot Rat), nama saintifiknya (Bandicota indica) ialah spesies rodensia dalam keluarga Muridae. Wiruk Hitam dijumpai di China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, dan Vietnam. Wiruk Hitam dapat membesar sehingga kira-kira 13 inci tidak termasuk ekor yang dapat membesar sama panjang.
Parasit
Parasit Bandicota indica termasuklah:
- Schistosoma spindale[2][3]
Rujukan
- Senarai Semak Spesies Fauna > Mamalia di Perhilitan
- ^ Baillie J. (1996). "Bandicota indica". 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
- ^ Singh K. I., Krishnasamy M., Ambu S., Rasul R. & Chong N. L. (1997). "Studies on animal schistosomes in Peninsular Malaysia: record of naturally infected animals and additional hosts of Schistosoma spindale". The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health 28(2): 303-307. PubMed
- ^ Singh K. I., Krishnasamy M. & Ambu S. (1992). "The large bandicoot rat, Bandicota indica, a new host for Schistosoma spindale, Montgomery, 1906, in Peninsular Malaysia". The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health 23(3): 537-538. PubMed.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
