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Heteromys desmarestianus Gray 1868

Description

Heteromys desmarestianus Gray, 1868. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868:204.

TYPE LOCALITY: Guatemala, Coban.

DISTRIBUTION: SE Tobasco (Mexico) south to NW Colombia.

SYNONYMS: chiriquensis Enders, crassirostris Goldman, fuscatus J. A. Allen, griseus Merriam, lepturus Merriam, longicaudatus Gray, nigricaudatus Goodwin, panamensis Goldman, planifrons Goldman, psakastus Dickey, repens Bangs, subaffinis Goldman, temporalis Goldman, underwoodi Goodwin, zonalis Goldman.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Heteromys. Partial revisions by Goodwin (1969) and Rogers and Schmidly (1982); subspecies listed by Hall (1981).

Notes

Published as part of James L. Patton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, pp. 477-486 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 481, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353079

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Heteromyidae
Genus
Heteromys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Species
desmarestianus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Heteromys desmarestianus Gray, 1868 sec. Patton, 1993

References

  • Goodwin, G. G. 1969. Mammals from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 141: 1 - 269.
  • Rogers, D. S., and D. J. Schmidly. 1982. Systematics of spiny pocket mice (genus Heteromys) of the desmarestianus species group from Mexico and northern Central America. Journal of Mammalogy, 63: 375 - 386.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.