ricefield rat

The ricefield rat lives in large groups which consist of a dominant male and high ranking female.

Ricefield rats primarily reside in cultivated areas such as rice paddies and grasslands.

Parasites of the ricefield rat include:

The ricefield rat is a medium-sized rat with a grizzed yellow-brown and black pelage.

The lesser ricefield rat (Rattus losea) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

Ricefield rats are also consumed in the Philippines, the Isaan region of Thailand, and Cambodia.

The ricefield rat (Rattus argentiventer) is a species of rat found throughout Southeast Asia.

Even in Spain, before the advent of mass-produced chicken, ricefield rats were a sought-after ingredient of the paella recipe of the Valencia region.

The ricefield rat can be found throughout Southeast Asia consists of Indochina region, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippine, and New Guinea as major rodent pest in rice field area.

Ricefield rats (Rattus argentiventer) have traditionally been used as food in rice-producing regions such as Valencia, as immortalized by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in his novel Cañas y barro.

It differs from Annandale's rat (Rattus annandalei) in having sleek fur with spines and fewer mammae, and from the ricefield rat (Rattus argentiventer) in having plain white underparts and lacking an orange spot in front of the ear.