| Heteromys | |
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| Heteromys desmarestianus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Heteromyidae |
| Subfamily: | Heteromyinae |
| Genus: | Heteromys Desmarest 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Mus anomalus Thompson, 1815. | |
Heteromys is a genus of rodents in the family Heteromyidae,[1] commonly known as spiny pocket mice. It is the only extant genus in the subfamily Heteromyinae which also includes the extinct genera Diprionomys and Metaliomys.[2] Heteromys was recently enlarged by inclusion of the members of formerly recognized heteromyine genus Liomys, which was found to be paraphyletic.[3]
Distribution
Heteromyines are distributed from southern Texas to Ecuador and Venezuela, and include all but one of the castorimorph species of South America. Like all of South America's other non-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)
- Cloud-dwelling spiny pocket mouse (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
- ^ Patton, J.L. (2005). "Family Heteromyidae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Heteromyinae in the Paleobiology Database". Fossilworks. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
- ^ Hafner, J. C.; Light, J. E.; Hafner, D. J.; Hafner, M. S.; Reddington, E.; Rogers, D. S.; Riddle, B. R. (2007-10-18). "Basal Clades and Molecular Systematics of Heteromyid Rodents". Journal of Mammalogy. 88 (5): 1129–1145. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-413R1.1.
- ^ Anderson, R. P.; Gutiérrez, E. E (December 2009). "Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History of the Genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in Central and Eastern Venezuela, with the Description of a New Species from the Cordillera de la Costa". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 331: 33–93. doi:10.1206/582-2.1. S2CID 41011596.
- ^ Anderson, R. P.; Timm, R. N. (2006). "A new montane species of spiny pocket mouse (Rodentia, Heteromyidae, Heteromys) from northwestern Costa Rica". American Museum Novitates. 3509: 1–38. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3509[1:ANMSOS]2.0.CO;2.