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Brown Rat – Rattus norvegicus
Jean-Jacque Boujot, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0
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Brown Rat – Rattus norvegicus
JC Schou
Brown Rat
(fi: rotta, sv: brunråtta)
Rattus norvegicus
Description
Identification
Distribution in Finland
References
Organism groups
Endangered status in Finland
ENDANGERED CATEGORY (International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classification)
CR Critically endangered
EN Endangered
VU Endangered
NT Near threatened
LC Least concern
2019 NA - not applicable
2015 NA - not applicable
2010 NA - not applicable
2000 LC - least concern
Regulations
Unprotected animal (Hunting law 1993/615)
Finland’s National Strategy on Invasive Alien Species (GR 2012)
Other invasive alien species of concern (not included on the national or EU list)
There are multiple alien species in Finland that are not included in the Union or national list of invasive alien species. There is scientific evidence that these species can be invasive or potentially invasive. It is banned to release these invasive alien species into the environment.