Hodomys alleni (Merriam 1892)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1051

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scientific name	Hodomys alleni (Merriam 1892)
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Hodomys alleni (Merriam 1892) View in CoL

[Neotoma] alleni Merriam 1892 , Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 7: 168.

Type Locality: México, Colima, Manzanillo.

Vernacular Names: Allen's Woodrat.

Synonyms: Hodomys elattura Osgood 1904 ; Hodomys guerrerensis Goldman 1938 ; Hodomys vetulus Merriam 1894 .

Distribution: S Sinaloa to Oaxaca; interior México along basins of Río Balsas to C Puebla and Río Tehuacán to N Oaxaca.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Kelson (1952) placed vetulus as a subspecies of N. alleni . See Genoways and Birney, 1974 (Mammalian Species, 41, as Neotoma alleni ), who first reported the karyotype (2n=48).