| Allen's woodrat | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Hodomys Merriam, 1894 |
| Species: | H. alleni |
| Binomial name | |
| Hodomys alleni (Merriam, 1892) | |
Allen's woodrat (Hodomys alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Hodomys.
This woodrat species is endemic to Mexico.
It is native from southern Sinaloa to Oaxaca states. It is found in interior México in the basins of the Río Balsas of central Puebla and Río Tehuacán of northern Oaxaca.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
The Neotominae are a subfamily of the family Cricetidae. They consist of four tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice, predominantly found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice.
The Mexican woodrat is a medium-sized pack rat.
Goldman's diminutive woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.
The diminutive woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico.
The Tamaulipan woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.
Anthony's woodrat is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat in the family Cricetidae. It was found only on Isla Todos Santos in Baja California, Mexico. It is thought to have been driven to extinction through predation from feral cats.
Bryant's woodrat is a species of new-world rodent in the family Cricetidae native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
Bunker's woodrat is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat in the family Cricetidae. Only five specimens are known; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. Neotoma bunkeri was only described from Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats.
The Nicaraguan woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Honduras and Nicaragua.
The Arizona woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and United States.
Goldman's woodrat is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico throughout the Mexican Plateau, stretching from southeastern Chihuahua to southern San Luis Potosí and northern Querétaro. The plateau is an average 5,988 ft. above sea level and covers a land area of 232,388 sq. miles.
The San Martín Island woodrat is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat in the family Cricetidae.
The Southern Plains woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northwest Mexico and in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States. The subspecies Neotoma micropus leucophaea, the White Sands woodrat, has white coloration, and is found only at White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
The Bolaños woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
The Sonoran woodrat is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
Neotoma leucodon is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Although originally named from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, as a species by Merriam, the white-toothed woodrat was long considered to be a synonym of the white-throated woodrat. Molecular data, however, indicate the populations east of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas represent a different species than morphologically similar populations west of the river.
A pack rat or packrat, also called a woodrat or trade rat, are any species in the North and Central American rodent genus Neotoma. Pack rats have a rat-like appearance, with long tails, large ears, and large, black eyes. Pack rats are noticeably larger than deer mice, harvest mice, and grasshopper mice, and are usually somewhat larger than cotton rats.
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