Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse

Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Heteromys
Species: H. gaumeri
Binomial name
Heteromys gaumeri
J.A. Allen & Chapman, 1897

Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It ranges over northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it lives in lowland semideciduous forest and thorn scrub.[1] The species is nocturnal and terrestrial; it is solitary and strongly territorial.[1] It is named after physician and biologist George F. Gaumer, who lived in the Yucatán from 1885 to 1929.

References

  1. ^ a b c Vázquez, E., Emmons, L., Reid, F. & Cuarón, A.D. (2008). Heteromys gaumeri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 14 January 2009.