大鼠屬

大鼠屬（学名：）又名家鼠属、大家鼠属、狭鼠属等等，是一個包括多種中型、長尾齧齒類物種，为鼠總科鼠科鼠亞科之下的一個屬。

在人類生活環境中最常見的是黑鼠（R. rattus）與褐鼠（R. norvegicus）。在日常生活中，屬於其他齧齒類科與屬的物種亦有時被當作是大鼠，而這些物種跟大鼠屬物種亦有多種特徵相似。

物種
本屬包括下列各物種：

地位未定 incertae sedis

 褐家鼠组 R. norvegicus group

 R. rattus group

 R. xanthurus group

 R. leucopus group (New Guinean group)

R. fuscipes group (Australian group)

參看
鼠肉
 東方鼠蝨：蚤科

參考文獻

延伸閱讀
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外部連結

 High-Resolution Images of the Rat Brain
 National Bio Resource Project for the Rat in Japan
 Rat Behaviour and Biology
 Rat Genome Database