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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Megadontomys
SPECIES Megadontomys cryophilus
| Author: | Musser, 1964. | | Citation: | Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 636: 13. | | Common Name: | Oaxacan Big-toothed Deermouse | | Type Locality: | México, Oaxaca, Distrito de Ixtlán, 13 mi (21 km) NE Llano de las Flores, south slope Cerro Pelón, 9200 ft (2804 m). | | Distribution: | Cloud and pine-oak forests in highlands of N Oaxaca, México. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Named as a subspecies of Peromyscus thomasi. Citing morphological traits and genetic differentiation reported by Werbitsky and Kilpatrick (1987), Carleton (1989) arranged cryophilus as a species. Recent elevational surveys by Briones-Salas et al. (2001) in the Sierra Mazteza and Sánchez-Cordero (2001) in the Sierra Mixteca amplify the geographic occurrence of this species in Oaxaca. |
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