Neotoma albigula Hartley, 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 : 710

Neotoma albigula Hartley, 1894 . Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, 4:157.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Arizona, Pima Co., vicinity of Fort Lowell, near Tucson .

DISTRIBUTION: Extreme SE California to S Colorado to W Texas, USA, south to NE Michoacan and W Hidalgo, Mexico.

SYNONYMS: angusticeps , brevicauda , cumulator , durangae, grandis , laplataensis, latifrons , leucodon , mearnsi , melanura , mêlas, montezumae , robusta , seri, sheldoni, subsolana, venusta , warreni, zacatecae .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma . Subspecific taxonomy updated by Hall and Genoways (1970). Hybridization suspected with N. micropus in Colorado ( Finley, 1958) and apparent intergradation of the two in Coahuila (Anderson, 19696). Closely related to N. floridana and N. micropus ( Birney, 1976) , the three considered semispecies by Zimmerman and Nejtek (1977). See Macêdo and Mares (1988, Mammalian Species, 310).