- Miahuatlán cotton rat
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Miahuatlán cotton rat Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Sigmodon Species: S. planifrons Binomial name Sigmodon planifrons
Nelson & Goldman, 1933The Miahuatlán cotton rat, Sigmodon planifrons, is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where it lives in deciduous tropical forest.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b "Sigmodon planifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136405. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ^ Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000923.
Categories:- IUCN Red List endangered species
- Sigmodontinae stubs
- Cotton rats
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