Allen's woodrat
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| Allen's woodrat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Hodomys Merriam, 1894 |
| Species: | H. alleni
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| Binomial name | |
| Hodomys alleni (Merriam, 1892)
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Allen's woodrat (Hodomys alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Hodomys.
Distribution
[edit]This woodrat species is endemic to Mexico.
It is native from southern Sinaloa to Oaxaca states. It is found in interior México in the basins of the Río Balsas of central Puebla and Río Tehuacán of northern Oaxaca.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
References
[edit]- ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E. (2016). "Hodomys alleni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10211A22379623. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10211A22379623.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- 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.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Neotominae
- Endemic mammals of Mexico
- Rodents of North America
- Natural history of Oaxaca
- Natural history of Puebla
- Natural history of Sinaloa
- Near threatened fauna of North America
- Mammals described in 1892
- Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam
- Sinaloan dry forests
- Jalisco dry forests
- Fauna of the Southern Pacific dry forests
- Cricetidae stubs