Salt flat mouse

Salt flat mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Phyllotini
Genus: Salinomys
Braun & Mares, 1995
Species: S. delicatus
Binomial name
Salinomys delicatus
Braun & Mares, 1995
Not to be confused with the little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus) of Australia or the delicate mouse (Mus tenellus) of Africa.

The salt flat mouse (Salinomys delicatus) is a sigmodontine rodent species in the family Cricetidae from South America. It is the only species in the genus Salinomys.[2] Its habitat is scrublands bordering salt flats (such as those of the Salinas Grandes) in central western Argentina at elevations around 400 m.[1][3] The closest relatives of the species are probably the chaco mice (Andalgalomys), the leaf-eared mice (Graomys, Paralomys and Phyllotis), Calomys and/or Eligmodontia.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b Jayat, J. & Pardinas, U. (2008). "Salinomys delicatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136228. Retrieved 5 July 2009. 
  2. ^ a b 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. 1172. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000902. 
  3. ^ a b Braun, Janet K.; Mares, Michael A. (May, 1995). "A New Genus and Species of Phyllotine Rodent (Rodentia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae: Phyllotini) from South America". Journal of Mammalogy (American Society of Mammalogists) 76 (2): 504–521. doi:10.2307/1382359. JSTOR 1382359.