Heteromys desmarestianus

J. E. Gray, 1868

Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse

Frontal view, showing head, feet, and tail
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Location:Guatemala, Zacapa, 9.5 km NW Gualan, El Limo, Sierra de las Minas, 1475 mDate taken:Dec 7, 2007

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 2061

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Castorimorphi
Superfamily : Geomyoidea
Family : Heteromyidae
Subfamily : Heteromyinae
Genus : Heteromys
Subgenus : Heteromys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1868-05. Synopsis of the species of Saccomyinae, or pouched mice, in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868(1):199-206.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28664709

Original name as described

Heteromys desmarestianus

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1843.6.13.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/77107035-e8e1-4bb7-b7d4-30b537c262f2

Type locality

"Coban [Cobán], Departamento de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia

Taxonomy notes

previously included H. goldmani

Taxonomy notes citation

Rogers, D.S. and González, M.W. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships among spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data. Journal of Mammalogy 91(4):914-930. doi:10.1644/09-MAMM-A-287.1

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001915

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: 28 names and synonyms.

Heteromys Desmarestiana

J. E. Gray, 1843

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

desmarestiana

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

79

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680057

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Heteromys desmarestianus

J. E. Gray, 1868

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

desmarestianus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1843.6.13.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/77107035-e8e1-4bb7-b7d4-30b537c262f2

Authority page

204

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28664709

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. True (1885:599, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306393) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
  2. Allen (1897:57, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27046636) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/10354)
  3. Trouessart (1897:586, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53435130) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59285)
  4. Trouessart (1904:486, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423367) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  5. Goldman (1911:20, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803229) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15640)
  6. Goldman (1920:115, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30263227) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9520)
  7. Goodwin (1946:370) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  8. Burt & Stirton (1961:53) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5545)
  9. Corbet & Hill (1980:141) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  10. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:385) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  11. Corbet & Hill (1991:149) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  12. Patton (1993:481) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69022)
  13. Williams, Genoways & Braun (1993:104) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34982)
  14. Patton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8558)
  15. Hafner, Light, Hafner, Hafner, Reddington, Rogers & Riddle (2007:1140) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/6745)
  16. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:199) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
  17. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #10006) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  18. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #10006) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  19. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001915) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  20. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/47804700/115400334) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)
  21. Alhajeri & Steppan (2025:13) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69466)

Heteromys longicaudatus

J. E. Gray, 1868

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

longicaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1856.8.1.13

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/70ccb0d4-98f0-4f6b-abe4-aa4589a57cb0

Authority page

204

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28664709

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. True (1885:599, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306393) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
  2. Alfaro (1897:41) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37835)
  3. Allen (1897:42, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27046619) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/10040)
  4. Allen (1897:57, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27046636) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/10354)
  5. Trouessart (1897:587, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53435131) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59285)
  6. Allen (1899:201) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15958)
  7. Bangs (1902:46, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4199032) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20608)
  8. Trouessart (1904:486, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423367) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  9. Goldman (1911:23, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803232) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15640)
  10. Corbet & Hill (1980:141) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  11. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:386) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  12. Patton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8558)

Heteromys repens

Bangs, 1902

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

repens

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MCZ:Mamm:10356

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:10356

Authority page

45

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4199033

Authority publication

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Name usages

  1. Bangs (1902:45, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4199033) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20608)
  2. Trouessart (1904:486, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423367) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  3. Goldman (1911:27, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803236) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15640)

Heteromys griseus

C. H. Merriam, 1902

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

griseus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:76062

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3ed352d33-2fb9-4974-872a-35ce56fcef4c

Authority page

42

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2364948

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

  1. Trouessart (1904:486, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423367) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  2. Patton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8558)

Heteromys goldmani lepturus

C. H. Merriam, 1902

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

lepturus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:73382

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3bab1013e-479c-4019-85e6-ca4c657480a5

Authority page

42

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2364948

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

Patton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8558)

Heteromys goldmanni lepturus

Trouessart, 1904

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

lepturus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

486

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423367

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Trouessart (1904:486, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423367) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)

Heteromys fuscatus

J. A. Allen, 1908

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

fuscatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-28451

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-28451

Authority page

652

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27046489

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

Goldman (1911:28, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803237) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15640)

Heteromys desmarestianus griseus

E. A. Goldman, 1911

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

griseus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

22

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803231

Authority publication

North American Fauna

Name usages

Goldman (1911:22, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803231) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15640)

Heteromys lepturus

E. A. Goldman, 1911

Family

Heteromyidae

Root name

lepturus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

25

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803234

Authority publication

North American Fauna

Name usages

  1. Goldman (1911:25, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25803234) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15640)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:141) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:386) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)

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