Tawny-Bellied Cotton Rat

Tawny-Bellied Cotton Rat

Taxobox
name = Tawny-bellied Cotton Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Sigmodon"
subgenus = "Sigmodon"
species_group = "S. fulviventer"
species = "S. fulviventer"
binomial = "Sigmodon fulviventer"
binomial_authority = J.A. Allen, 1889
synonyms =
The Tawny-bellied Cotton Rat ("Sigmodon fulviventer") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.It is found in Mexico and the United States.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20212/all Sigmodon fulviventer] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
*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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