HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Neotoma
--> SUBGENUS Teanopus
SPECIES Neotoma (Teanopus) phenax
Author: | Merriam, 1903. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 16: 81. | Common Name: | Sonoran Woodrat | Type Locality: | México, Sonora, Río Mayo, Camoa. | Distribution: | SW Sonora and NW Sinaloa, México. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Teanopus. Type species of Teanopus, a taxon recognized as genus until reduced to a subgenus by Burt and Barkalow (1942). Karyotype interpreted as highly derived (Koop et al., 1985); highly differentiated from and cladistically basal to most species surveyed by Planz et al. (1996) using mitochondrial DNA restriction site analyses. See Jones and Genoways (1978, Mammalian Species, 108). |
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