Neotoma floridana (Ord, 1818) . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1818:181.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Florida, Duval Co., St. Johns River, near Jacksonville .

DISTRIBUTION: SC and E USA from EC Colorado to E Texas, eastwards along Appalachians to W Connecticut, and along gulf-coast states to S North Carolina and C Florida.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as N. f. smalli.

SYNONYMS: attwateri, baileyi, campestris, haematoreia, illinoensis, magister, osagensis, pennsylvanica, rubida, smalli.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma . Hybridization with N. micropus possible but introgression along narrow contact zone judged insubstantial (Birney, 1973). Birney (1976) noted that further study may reveal magister as genetically isolated from N. floridana . See Wiley (1980, Mammalian Species, 139).