Reithrodontomys fulvescens J. A. Allen, 1894

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 : 741

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scientific name	Reithrodontomys fulvescens J. A. Allen, 1894
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Reithrodontomys fulvescens J. A. Allen, 1894 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 6:319.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Sonora, Oposura, 2000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: SC Arizona to SW Missouri to WC Mississippi, USA, south through Mexico, to W Nicaragua; excluding Yucatan Peninsula and Caribbean coastal lowlands.

SYNONYMS: amoenus , aurantius, canus , chiapensis, chrysotis , difficilis , griseoflavus , helvolus , inexspectatus , infernatis, intermedius , laceyi , mustelinus, nelsoni , tenuis , toltecus , tropicalis .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Reithrodontomys , fulvescens species group. Chromosomal complement (2n=50) interpreted as primitive for the genus ( Robbins and Baker, 1980). See Spencer and Cameron (1982, Mammalian Species, 174).