Reithrodontomys

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Neotominae
Tribus: Reithrodontomyini
Genus: Reithrodontomys
Subgenera (2): R. (Aporodon) – R. (Reithrodontomys)

Species (24): R. bakeri – R. brevirostris – R. burti – R. cherrii – R. chrysopsis – R. creper – R. darienensis – R. fulvescens – R. garichensis – R. gracilis – R. hirsutus – R. humulis – R. megalotis – R. mexicanus – R. microdon – R. montanus – R. musseri – R. paradoxus – R. raviventris – R. rodriguezi – R. spectabilis – R. sumichrasti – R. tenuirostris – R. zacatecae

Fossil species (4): †R. moorei – †R. pratincola – †R. rexroadensis – †R. wetmorei

Name

• Reithrodontomys Giglioli, 1874: 326

Type species: Reithrodon megalotis Baird, 1857, by subsequent designated by Howell (1914: 13).

Synonyms

• Ochetodon Coues, 1874: 184

Type species: no designated.

• Aporodon Howell, 1914: 63 [accepted as subgenus]

Type species: Reithrodontomys tenuirostris Merriam, 1901, by original designation.

• †Cudahyomys Hibbard, 1944: 725

Type species: †Cudahyomys moorei Hibbard, 1944, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Giglioli, E.H. 1874. Ricerche intorno alla distribuzione geografi ca generale o corologie degli animali vertebrati. III. Regione Boreo- Americana. Bolletino della Società Geologica Italiana 2: 321–366.
• Coues, E. 1874. Synopsis of the Muridae of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 26(3): 173–196.
• Howell, A.H. 1914. Revision of the American harvest mice (genus Reithrodontomys). North American Fauna 36: 1–97. DOI: 10.3996/nafa.36.0001
• Hibbard, C.W. 1944. Stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of Pleistocene deposits of southwestern Kansas. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 55(6): 707–754, 3 plates. DOI: 10.1130/GSAB-55-707

Additional references

• Allen, J.A. 1895. On the species of the genus Reithrodontomys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 7: 107–143. Full article
• Hooper, E.T. 1952. A systematic review of harvest mice (Genus Reithrodontomys) of Latin America. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 77: 1–255. Full article
• Bradley, R.D., Mendez-Harclerode, F., Hamilton, M.J. & Ceballos, G. 2004. A new species of Reithrodontomys from Guerrero, Mexico. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 231: 1–12. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Arellano, E., González-Cozátl, F.X. & Rogers, D.S. 2005. Molecular systematics of Middle American harvest mice Reithrodontomys (Muridae), estimated from mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(2): 529–540. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.021 Reference page. 
• Gardner, A.L. & Carleton, M.D. 2009. Chapter 5. A New Species of Reithrodontomys, Subgenus Aporodon (Cricetidae: Neotominae), from the Highlands of Costa Rica, with Comments on Costa Rican and Panamanian Reithrodontomys. In Voss, R.S. & Carleton, M.D. (eds.) Systematic Mammalogy: Contributions in Honor of Guy G. Musser. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 157–182. DOI: 10.1206/582-5.1 ; hdl: 2246/6035 Reference page. 

Links

• Reithrodontomys in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

Vernacular names

English: New World Harvest Mice