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--> GENUS Onychomys
SPECIES Onychomys leucogaster
Author: | Wied-Neuwied, 1841. | Citation: | Reise in Nord America, 2: 99. | Common Name: | Northern Grasshopper Mouse | Type Locality: | USA, North Dakota, Oliver Co., Mandan village near Fort Clark. | Distribution: | S Alberta, S Saskatchewan, and SW Manitoba, Canada, south through much of Great Plains and Great Basin region of USA, to NC Sonora and N Tamaulipas, México. | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient as O. l. durranti, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Geographic variation and subspecific taxonomy reviewed for C Great Plains (Engstrom and J. Choate, 1979) and for Great Basin region (Riddle and J. Choate, 1986). Biogeographic implications of intraspecific differentiation explored by Riddle and J. Choate (1986) and Riddle et al. (1993). See McCarty (1978, Mammalian Species, 87). |
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albescens Merriam, 1904 arcticeps Rhoads, 1898 breviauritus Hollister, 1913 brevicaudus Merriam, 1891 capitulatus Hollister, 1913 durranti Riddle and J. Choate, 1986 fuliginosus Merriam, 1890 fuscogriseus Anthony, 1913 longipes Merriam, 1889 melanophrys Merriam, 1889 missouriensis (Audubon and Bachman, 1851) pallescens Merriam, 1890 pallidus Herrick, 1885 ruidosae Stone and Rehn, 1903 utahensis Goldman, 1939
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