Hudson's oldfield mouse

Hudson's oldfield mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Thomasomys
Species: T. hudsoni
Binomial name
Thomasomys hudsoni
Anthony, 1923

Hudson's oldfield mouse (Thomasomys hudsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is known only from the Andes in southern Ecuador, where is has been found at an elevation of 3100 m.[1] It was formerly considered a subspecies of T. gracilis.[3] It is named after American zoologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood.

References

  1. ^ a b Pacheco, V., Tirira, D. & Boada, C. (2008). "Thomasomys hudsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136762. Retrieved 9 August 2009. 
  2. ^ 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.). p. 1181. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000949. 
  3. ^ Voss, R. S. (2003-12-09). "A New Species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Ecuador, with Remarks on Mammalian Diversity and Biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental". American Museum Novitates (American Museum of Natural History) 3421: 1–47. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)421<0001:ANSOTR>2.0.CO;2. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2850/1/N3421.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-07.