Heteromys
Heteromys | |
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Heteromys desmarestianus
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Heteromyidae |
Subfamily: | Heteromyinae |
Genus: | Heteromys Desmarest, 1817 |
Type species | |
Mus anomalus Thompson, 1815.
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Heteromys is a genus of
paraphyletic.[3]
Distribution
Heteromyines are distributed from southern
caviomorph rodents, they arrived in the continent relatively recently as part of the Great American Interchange
. They inhabit mainly forests; some are also found in scrubland.
Taxonomy
The genus Heteromys comprises the following species of spiny pocket mice:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse (H. adspersus)
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse (H. anomalus)
- Southern spiny pocket mouse (H. australis)
- Overlook spiny pocket mouse (H. catopterius)[4]
- Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse (H. desmarestianus)
- Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse (H. gaumeri)
- Goldman's spiny pocket mouse (H. goldmani)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse (H. irroratus)
- Nelson's spiny pocket mouse (H. nelsoni)
- H. nubicolens)[5]
- Paraguaná spiny pocket mouse (H. oasicus)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse (H. oresterus)
- Painted spiny pocket mouse (H. pictus)
- Salvin's spiny pocket mouse (H. salvini)
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse (H. spectabilis)
- Ecuadoran spiny pocket mouse (H. teleus)
References
Wikispecies has information related to Heteromys.
- OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Heteromyinae in the Paleobiology Database". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- .
- S2CID 41011596.
- S2CID 1353074.