Miahuatlán cotton rat
| Miahuatlán cotton rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Sigmodon |
| Species: | S. planifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| Sigmodon planifrons Nelson & Goldman, 1933
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The Miahuatlán cotton rat (Sigmodon planifrons) is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where it lives in deciduous tropical forest.[1]
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN2009.1
- ^ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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