Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Neotominae |
Genus: | Reithrodontomys |
Species: | R. bakeri |
Binomial name | |
Reithrodontomys bakeri Bradley, 2004 [1] | |
Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys bakeri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is one of about 20 species of the genus Reithrodontomys . This species was discovered in 2004 [2] and is found in Central Mexico. [3]
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 western harvest mouse is a small neotomine mouse native to most of the western United States. Many authorities consider the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse to be a subspecies, but the two are now usually treated separately.
Reithrodontomys is the genus of groove-toothed New World harvest mice.
The Mexican big-eared bat is a species of vesper bat endemic to Mexico. They are nocturnal and insectivorous. Their very large ears are located across their foreheads, and when captured, the bats are observed to curl their ears in a protective manner. The adults are usually brown colored, while the juveniles are usually a smokey brown color. They have small noses.
The short-nosed harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The Sonoran harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.
The volcano harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.
The Darien harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Panama.
The fulvous harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States.
The slender harvest mouse(Reithrodontomys gracilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. A small mouse-like rodent distributed throughout a portion Central America.
The hairy harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
The Mexican harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama in a variety of habitats at altitudes from sea level to 3800 m.
The small-toothed harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
The plains harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northern Mexico and the central United States.
The Cozumel harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula. It is nocturnal and semiareboreal, and lives in dense secondary forest and forest edge habitats. Its population is small, fluctuating and patchily distributed. The species is threatened by predation from feral cats and dogs and introduced boa constrictors, by competition with introduced nonnative rats and mice, and by habitat disturbances caused by hurricanes and floods which periodically strike the island.
Sumichrast's harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
The narrow-nosed harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
The Zacatecas harvest mouse is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.
The Aztec mastiff bat is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found from Jalisco and Cozumel Island in southern Mexico to Nicaragua in a variety of forest habitats at elevations from near sea level to 1300 m. It has also been reported from southern Venezuela. The species' diet is insectivorous.
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