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Miahuatlán cotton rat

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Miahuatlán cotton rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Sigmodon
Species:
S. planifrons
Binomial name
Sigmodon planifrons
Nelson & Goldman, 1933

The Miahuatlán cotton rat (Sigmodon planifrons) was formerly considered a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where it lives in deciduous tropical forest.[1] The IUCN currently considers it to be conspecific with Sigmodon alleni.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J. (2008). "Sigmodon planifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
  2. ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ^ de Grammont, P.C.; Cuarón, A.D. (2018). "Sigmodon alleni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T115591937A22355693. Retrieved 27 December 2019.