Biology:Southern Plains woodrat
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Short description: Species of rodent
| Southern Plains woodrat | |
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| Southern Plains Woodrat, Luna County | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Neotoma |
| Species: | N. micropus
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| Binomial name | |
| Neotoma micropus Baird, 1855
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The Southern Plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northwest Mexico and in Colorado, Kansas , New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States . The subspecies Neotoma micropus leucophaea, the White Sands woodrat, has white coloration, and is found only at White Sands National Park in New Mexico.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linzey, A.V.; Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T. (2008). "Neotoma micropus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/14591/0. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Wikidata ☰ Q1769403 entry
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