Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Class Mammalia > Subclass Eutheria > Order Rodentia > Suborder Sciurognathi > Family Muridae > Genus Ondatra

Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Castor Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ondatra*	Link, 1795	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Castor zibethicus*	Linnaeus, 1766	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: Bisamrotte sources: danish PESI focal point

Dutch: Muskusrat sources: Dutch Species Register

English-United States: Musk Rat sources: Charles Hussey

German: Bisam; Bisamratte sources: german PESI focal point;Germany PESI focal point

Greek: Μοσχοποντικός sources: Greek PESI focal point

Lithuanian: ondatra sources: Lithuanian PESI focal point

Norwegian Bokmål: bisam; bisamrotte sources: Systema Naturae, 12th ed., 1:79

Norwegian Nynorsk: bisam; bisamrotte sources: Systema Naturae, 12th ed., 1:79

Russian: мускусная крыса; онда́тра sources: Russian PESI focal point

Slovenian: pižmovka sources: Slovenian PESI focal point

Spanish, Castillian: Rata almizclera sources: spanish PESI focal point

Swedish: Bisam

Turkish: Misk faresi; Misk sıçanı; Muskrat sources: Turkish PESI focal point

Ukrainian: Ондатра звичайна

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Citation

Prof. Dr Wieslaw Bogdanowicz. Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=305697

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2005-01-25 by Prof. Dr Wieslaw Bogdanowicz

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