Neotoma mexicana Baird, 1855

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 : 712

Neotoma mexicana Baird, 1855 . Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7:333.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Chihuahua, mountains near Chihuahua .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Utah and C Colorado, USA, southwards through W and interior Mexico, to highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and W Honduras.

SYNONYMS: atrata , bullata, chamula, distincta , eremita, fallax , ferruginea , fulviventer , griseoventer, inopinata , inornata, isthmica , madrensis , navus , ochracea , orizabae , parvidens , pietà, pinetorum , scopulorum, sinaloae , solitaria, tenuicauda , torquata , tropicalis , vulcani .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma . Subspecies classification revised by Hall (1955). Specific homogeneity of included taxa doubtful. See Comely and Baker (1986, Mammalian Species, 262).