Nelson's Woodrat

Nelson's Woodrat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Neotoma
Species:	N. nelsoni
Binomial name
Neotoma nelsoni Goldman, 1905

Nelson's Woodrat (Neotoma nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from the eastern slopes of the volcanoes Orizaba and Cofre de Perote.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. & Castro-Arellano, I. (2008). Neotoma nelsoni. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 August 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of critically endangered.

• 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.