Biology:Cozumel harvest mouse
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Short description: Species of rodent
Cozumel harvest mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Neotominae |
Genus: | Reithrodontomys |
Species: | R. spectabilis
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Binomial name | |
Reithrodontomys spectabilis Jones & Lawlor, 1965
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Cozumel harvest mouse range |
The Cozumel harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula. It is nocturnal and semiarboreal, and lives in dense secondary forest and forest edge habitats.[1] Its population is small, fluctuating and patchily distributed.[1] The species is threatened by predation from feral cats and dogs and introduced boa constrictors, by competition with introduced nonnative rats and mice, and by habitat disturbances caused by hurricanes and floods which periodically strike the island.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Vázquez, E.; de Grammont, P.C.; Cuarón, A.D. (2018). "Reithrodontomys spectabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T19416A22386261. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T19416A22386261.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19416/22386261. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ↑ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1084. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000514.
Wikidata ☰ Q1769696 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozumel harvest mouse.
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