Order RODENTIA
Family MURIDAE
Mus musculus Linnaeus
Experimental prey.—Diploptera punctata, U.S.A. (Eisner, 1958).
Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout)
Synonymy.—Mus decumanus; Epimys norvegicus.
Natural prey.—Leucophaea maderae, Venezuela (Brumpt, 1931): Rats infested with Protospirura bonnei presumably ate this cockroach which is the intermediate host of the worm.
Periplaneta americana, Brazil (Magalhães, 1898): Remains found in the stomachs of brown rats. Denmark (Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 1914): This cockroach was found to be the intermediate host of Gongylonema neoplasticum, a parasite of rats.
Rattus rattus (Linnaeus)
Natural prey.—Periplaneta americana, Denmark (Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 1914): See comment after these authors under Rattus norvegicus.