Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > 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

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Genus group names

*Ondatra*	Link, 1795	accepted genus name

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Danish: Bisamrotte sources: danish PESI focal point

Dutch: Muskusrat sources: Dutch Species Register

English: 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 https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d4fc9e67-fe5d-4f0b-92a6-b81cbb42e03c

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