Species Detail - Black Rat (Rattus rattus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "National Invasive Species Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Rattus rattus
Black Rat
Ship Rat
Invasive Species: Invasive Species || Invasive Species: Invasive Species >> High Impact Invasive Species || Invasive Species: Invasive Species >> Regulation S.I. 477 (Ireland)
rarat
(Linnaeus, 1758)
terrestrial mammal
Species
1
1
1
16/07/2017
16/07/2017
12 January (recorded in 1985)
16 July (recorded in 2017)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, National Invasive Species Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Black Rat (Rattus rattus), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/397/Species/119484>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)