Neotoma micropus 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

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

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Tamaulipas, Charco Escondido .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Colorado and SW Kansas through W Texas and most of New Mexico, USA; south in Mexico to N Chihuahua, E San Luis Potosi, and S Tamaulipas.

SYNONYMS: canescens , leucophaea, littoralis , planiceps , surberi.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma . Limited hybridization documented with N. floridana in Oklahoma (Birney, 1973) and believed probable with N. albigula in Colorado ( Finley, 1958) and Coahuila ( Anderson, 1969b); also see comments under N. albigula and N. floridana . See Braun and Mares (1989, Mammalian Species, 330).