Neotoma floridana (Ord, 1818)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 711

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scientific name	Neotoma floridana (Ord, 1818)
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Neotoma floridana (Ord, 1818) . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1818:181.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Florida, Duval Co., St. Johns River, near Jacksonville .

DISTRIBUTION: SC and E USA from EC Colorado to E Texas, eastwards along Appalachians to W Connecticut, and along gulf-coast states to S North Carolina and C Florida.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as N. f. smalli.

SYNONYMS: attwateri , baileyi , campestris , haematoreia, illinoensis, magister , osagensis, pennsylvanica , rubida , smalli.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma . Hybridization with N. micropus possible but introgression along narrow contact zone judged insubstantial (Birney, 1973). Birney (1976) noted that further study may reveal magister as genetically isolated from N. floridana . See Wiley (1980, Mammalian Species, 139).