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Rattus rattus argentiventer, the Malaysian rice-field rat, is a common pest of standing crops and of wasteland covered by the tall grass ‘lalang’ (Imperata cylindrica). It is widely distributed throughout the Malaysian Islands, and in Malaya it is the most important host of the scrub typhus mite-vector Trombicula akamushi s.l.
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HARRISON, J. Effect of Rain on the Feeding of the Malaysian Rice-Field Rat. Nature 164, 746–747 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164746a0
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