Table 3.
This table reports the morphological diagnostic characters that were considered for the analysis. Body measurements in millimetres of nine R. norvegicus from Turkey and 63 R. rattus from Turkey and Cyprus, respectively ([24] and references therein), were compared with the specimens from Cyprus here analyzed. The measurements of weight in R. norvegicus reported by Kryštufek and Vohralik [24] refer to one specimen only, therefore, no range of values (Min–Max) was provided.
| [24] | Present Study | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. rattus | R. norvegicus | ||||||||
| N | Mean | Min–Max | N | Mean | Min–Max | N | Mean | Min–Max | |
| Head and body | 63 | 182.7 | 155–234 | 9 | 222.9 | 192–255 | 7 | 195.3 | 165–230 |
| Tail | 60 | 216.9 | 180–269 | 9 | 187.9 | 145–216 | 7 | 175.4 | 160–205 |
| Hind foot | 40 | 36.2 | 33.0–42.0 | 9 | 41.6 | 38.0–44.0 | 7 | 40.8 | 36.5–43.4 |
| Ear | 30 | 23.7 | 20.0–26.0 | 9 | 21.5 | 20.0–23.0 | 7 | 18.5 | 16.5–18.4 |
| Weight | 35 | 188.4 | 100–279 | 1 | 498 | - | 5 | 267 | 235–285 |