Allen's woodrat
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Allen's woodrat (Hodomys alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Hodomys.
Distribution
This woodrat species is endemic to Mexico.
It is native from southern Sinaloa to Oaxaca states. It is found in interior México in the basins of the Río Balsas of central Puebla and Río Tehuacán of northern Oaxaca.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
References
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- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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- Neotominae
- Endemic mammals of Mexico
- Rodents of North America
- Natural history of Oaxaca
- Natural history of Puebla
- Natural history of Sinaloa
- Near threatened fauna of North America
- Mammals described in 1892
- Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
- Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam
- Sinaloan dry forests
- Jalisco dry forests
- Fauna of the Southern Pacific dry forests