Neotoma lepida Thomas, 1893

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 : 711-712

Neotoma lepida Thomas, 1893 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 12:235.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Simpson's Route" between Camp Floyd (= Fairfield), Utah and Carson City, Nevada (as restricted by Goldman, 1932:61) .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Oregon and SW Idaho, south through Nevada and S California, USA, to S Baja California, Mexico.

SYNONYMS: abbreviata , arenacea , aridicola, bella , californica , desertorum , egresso, felipensis , gilva , grinnelli, insularis , intermedia , latirostra, marcosensis, marshalli, molagrandis, nevadensis , notia, nudicauda , perpallida, petricola, pretiosa , ravida, sola, vicina.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma . Aside from removal of N. devia , may still represent a composite of two species (see Mascarello, 1978).