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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Reithrodontomys
--> SUBGENUS Reithrodontomys
SPECIES Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) fulvescens
| Author: | J. A. Allen, 1894. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 319. | | Common Name: | Fulvous Harvest Mouse | | Type Locality: | México, Sonora, Oposura, 2000 ft (610 m). | | Distribution: | SC Arizona, NC, S and E Texas, to SW Missouri and W Mississippi, USA; south through much of México, to W Nicaragua; excluding Yucatán Peninsula and Caribbean coastal lowlands. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Reithrodontomys, fulvescens species group. Chromosomal complement (2n = 50) interpreted as primitive for the genus (Robbins and Baker, 1980). Genetically strongly divergent from six other species of the subgenus Reithrodontomys based on cytochrome b sequences (Bell et al., 2001). Westerly dispersion along grassy railway borders onto Llano Estacado, NC Texas, documented by Yancey and Jones (1997); also see Peppers et al. (1998) for records of northward extension in Texas. Appreciable fixed allelic differences detected among certain samples from the US and Mexico advise the need for taxonomic review of included synonyms (Arellano et al., 2003; Arnold et al., 1983). See Spencer and Cameron (1982, Mammalian Species, 174). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
amoenus (Eliot, 1905)
aurantius J. A. Allen, 1895
canus Benson, 1939
chiapensis A. H. Howell, 1914
chrysotis Elliot, 1899
difficilis Merriam, 1901
griseoflavus Merriam, 1901
helvolus Merriam, 1901
inexspectatus Elliot, 1903
infernatis Hooper, 1950
intermedius J. A. Allen, 1895
laceyi J. A. Allen, 1896
meridionalis Anderson and Jones, 1960
mustelinus A. H. Howell, 1914
nelsoni A. H. Howell, 1914
tenuis J. A. Allen, 1899
toltecus Merriam, 1901
tropicalis Davis, 1944
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