Heteromys adspersus
W. C. H. Peters, 1874
Panamanian Spiny Pocket Mouse
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
Order | : Rodentia |
Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
Infraorder | : Castorimorphi |
Family | : Heteromyidae |
Subfamily | : Heteromyinae |
Genus | : Heteromys |
Species status
Authority citation
Peters, W.C.H. 1874. Hr. W. Peters las über die Taschenmäuse, Nager mit äusseren taschenförmigen Backentaschen, und eine neue Art derselben, _Heteromys adspersus_, aus Panama. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1874:354-359.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36626683Original name as described
Heteromys adspersus
Other common names
Peter's Spiny Pocket Mouse
Type material
ZMB (no number given)
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
City of Panama, Panama.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Panama
Taxonomy notes
moved from Liomys to Heteromys and there have been suggestions to move the species to a new genus with H. salvini, Schaeferia, but this is not followed here
Taxonomy notes citation
Hafner, J.C., Light, J.E., Hafner, D.J., Hafner, M.S., Reddington, E., Rogers, D.S. and Riddle, B.R. 2007. Basal clades and molecular systematics of heteromyid rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 1129-1145. · Anderson, R. P., & Gutiérrez, E. E. (2009). Taxonomy, distribution, and natural history of the genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in central and eastern Venezuela, with the description of a new species from the Cordillera de la Costa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2009(331), 33-93.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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