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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Reithrodontomys
--> SUBGENUS Aporodon
SPECIES Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) spectabilis
| Author: | Jones and Lawlor, 1965. | | Citation: | Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 16: 413. | | Common Name: | Cozumel Harvest Mouse | | Type Locality: | México, Quintana Roo, Isla Cozumel, 2.5 km N San Miguel. | | Distribution: | Restricted to Cozumel Isl, México. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Subgenus Aporodon, mexicanus species group. A large insular species, posited to share common ancestry with R. gracilis (Jones and Lawlor, 1965), a relationship generally supported by allozymic data (Arellano et al., 2003). See Jones (1982, Mammalian Species, 193). |
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