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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Reithrodontomys
--> SUBGENUS Reithrodontomys
SPECIES Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) zacatecae
| Author: | Merriam, 1901. | | Citation: | Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3: 557. | | Common Name: | Zacatecan Harvest Mouse | | Type Locality: | México, Zacatecas, Sierra de Valparaíso. | | Distribution: | W Chihuahua to WC Michoacán, México. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Subgenus Reithrodontomys, megalotis species group. Hooper (1952) noted the phenetic distinction of zacatecae from R. megalotis saturatus in Jalisco and Michoacán but elected to retain it as a subspecies. Karyotypic divergence of zacatecae reported by Hood et al. (1984), who proposed its elevation to species; status sustained by genetic distance levels, as sister species to R. megalotis (Bell et al., 2001). Distributional limits, morphological discrimination, and assignment of species-group synonyms deserve amplification. |
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