Biology:Southern Plains woodrat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Southern Plains woodrat
Southern Plains Wood rat.jpg
Southern Plains Woodrat, Luna County
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Neotoma
Species:
N. micropus
Binomial name
Neotoma micropus
Baird, 1855

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. 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