Allen's woodrat

Allen's woodrat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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.

Distribution

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.

References

1. Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E. (2016). "Hodomys alleni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T10211A22379623. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10211A22379623.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.