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--> ORDER RODENTIA
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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Scotinomys
SPECIES Scotinomys teguina
Author: | Alston, 1876. | Actual Date: | 1877 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876: 755. | Common Name: | Short-tailed Singing Mouse | Type Locality: | Guatemala, Alta Verapaz Dept., Cobán. | Distribution: | Intermediate elevations of Middle America from E Oaxaca, México, to W Panamá. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Level of differentiation and status of populations north (teguina) and south (irazu) of the Nicaraguan Depression merit reconsideration. Hooper (1972) recognized four subspecies. |
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apricus (Bangs, 1902) cacabatus Goodwin, 1945 endersi Goodwin, 1946 episcopi Enders and Pearson, 1939 escazuensis Goodwin, 1945 garichensis Enders and Pearson, 1939 irazu (J. A Allen, 1904) leridensis Enders and Pearson, 1939 rufoniger Sanborn, 1935 stenopygius Buchanan and Howell, 1967 subnubilis Goldman, 1935
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