Sigmodon toltecus

(de Saussure, 1860)

Toltec Cotton Rat

Collected at Mexico, Chiapas, Cintalapa municipality, 29. 4 km NW Cintalapa, Zona de Aprovechamiento Forestal los Ocotones, 1067 m, 16.770 ° N, 93.99° W
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Location:Mexico, CHP, San Cristobal de las Casas municipality, El Colegio de la Frontera SurDate taken:Feb 17, 2010

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 3517

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Sigmodontini
Genus : Sigmodon

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Saussure, H.L.F. de. 1860-03. Note sur quelques Mammifères du Mexique. Troisième article. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée (2)12(3):97-110.

Original name as described

Hesperomys toltecus

Type material

MHNG 510.91, MHNG 510.92, MHNG 510.93, MHNG 510.97

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"la Cordilière de la province de Véra-Cuz, " Mexico. Clarified by W. W. Dalquest in 1953 to near Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic · Nearctic

Country distribution

Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · Honduras

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 8 names and synonyms.

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