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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Reithrodontomys
--> SUBGENUS Reithrodontomys
SPECIES Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) raviventris
| Author: | Dixon, 1908. | | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 21: 197. | | Common Name: | Salt-marsh Harvest Mouse | | Type Locality: | USA, California, San Mateo Co., Redwood City. | | Distribution: | Salt marshes around San Francisco Bay, California, USA. | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered as R. r. raviventris, Lower Risk (cd) as R. r. halicoetes. | | Comments: | Subgenus Reithrodontomys, megalotis species group. Morphological and chromosomal differentiation between the subspecies raviventris and halicoetes thought to represent terminal stages of speciation (Fisler, 1965; Shellhammer, 1967). Chromosomal banding, allozymic, and DNA data reveal sister-group relationship to R. montanus (Bell et al., 2001; Hood et al., 1984; Nelson et al., 1984). See Shellhammer (1982, Mammalian Species, 169). |
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