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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Neofiber
SPECIES Neofiber alleni
Author: | True, 1884. | Citation: | Science, 4: 34. | Common Name: | Round-tailed Muskrat | Type Locality: | USA, Florida, Brevard Co., Georgiana. | Distribution: | Most of peninsular Florida, extralimitally in extreme SE Georgia and Florida panhandle, USA. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Geographic races initially delimited by Schwartz (1953), but Whitaker and Hamilton (1998) recommended nigrescens and struix as synonyms of N. a. alleni. See Birkenholz (1972, Mammalian Species, 15). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
apalachicolae Schwartz, 1953 exoristus Schwartz, 1953 nigrescens A. H. Howell, 1920 struix Schwartz, 1952
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