TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattusen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattusen.wikipedia.orgTheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
Genus name: Rattus Species name: rattus Subspecies name: rattus You’d actually say it as R. rattus rattus or Rattus r. rattus.
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoMus musculus was the one I was thinking of. The -culus is just the diminutive suffix.
Mus musculus was the one I was thinking of. The -culus is just the diminutive suffix.