Heteromys
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| Heteromys | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Heteromyidae |
| Genus: | Heteromys Desmarest 1817 |
Heteromys is a genus of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.[1]
It contains the following species:
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys anomalus)
- Southern spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys australis)
- Overlook spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys catopterius) [2]
- Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys desmarestianus)
- Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri)
- Goldman's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys goldmani)
- Nelson's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys nelsoni)
- Heteromys nubicolens
- Paraguaná spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys oasicus)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys oresterus)
- Ecuadoran spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys teleus)
References
- ↑ Patton, J. L. (2005). "Family Heteromyidae". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History of the Genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in Central and Eastern Venezuela, with the Description of a New Species from the Cordillera de la Costa http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/582-2.1
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