HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Reithrodontomys
--> SUBGENUS Reithrodontomys
SPECIES Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) fulvescens
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1894. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 319. | Common Name: | Fulvous Harvest Mouse | Type Locality: | México, Sonora, Oposura, 2000 ft (610 m). | Distribution: | SC Arizona, NC, S and E Texas, to SW Missouri and W Mississippi, USA; south through much of México, to W Nicaragua; excluding Yucatán Peninsula and Caribbean coastal lowlands. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Reithrodontomys, fulvescens species group. Chromosomal complement (2n = 50) interpreted as primitive for the genus (Robbins and Baker, 1980). Genetically strongly divergent from six other species of the subgenus Reithrodontomys based on cytochrome b sequences (Bell et al., 2001). Westerly dispersion along grassy railway borders onto Llano Estacado, NC Texas, documented by Yancey and Jones (1997); also see Peppers et al. (1998) for records of northward extension in Texas. Appreciable fixed allelic differences detected among certain samples from the US and Mexico advise the need for taxonomic review of included synonyms (Arellano et al., 2003; Arnold et al., 1983). See Spencer and Cameron (1982, Mammalian Species, 174). |
|
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
amoenus (Eliot, 1905) aurantius J. A. Allen, 1895 canus Benson, 1939 chiapensis A. H. Howell, 1914 chrysotis Elliot, 1899 difficilis Merriam, 1901 griseoflavus Merriam, 1901 helvolus Merriam, 1901 inexspectatus Elliot, 1903 infernatis Hooper, 1950 intermedius J. A. Allen, 1895 laceyi J. A. Allen, 1896 meridionalis Anderson and Jones, 1960 mustelinus A. H. Howell, 1914 nelsoni A. H. Howell, 1914 tenuis J. A. Allen, 1899 toltecus Merriam, 1901 tropicalis Davis, 1944
|
|
|