Nelson's woodrat

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Nelson's woodrat
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neotoma
Species: N. nelsoni
Binomial name
Neotoma nelsoni
Goldman, 1905

Nelson's woodrat (Neotoma nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from the eastern slopes of the volcanoes Orizaba and Cofre de Perote.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. & Castro-Arellano, I. (2008). Neotoma nelsoni. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 3 August 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of critically endangered.
  • 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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