| Zempoaltepec deer mouse | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Habromys |
| Species: | H. lepturus
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| Binomial name | |
| Habromys lepturus (
Merriam, 1898)
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The Zempoaltepec deer mouse (Habromys lepturus) also known as the slender-tailed deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
It is endemic to southeastern Mexico, at one locality on Cerro Zempoaltepec above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Oaxaca state.
References
- ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Vázquez, E. (2018). "Habromys lepturus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T9609A22376889. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T9609A22376889.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- 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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Categories:
- IUCN Red List critically endangered species
- Habromys
- Endemic mammals of Mexico
- Rodents of North America
- Fauna of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca
- Mammals described in 1898
- Critically endangered biota of Mexico
- Critically endangered fauna of North America
- Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam
- Cricetidae stubs