Neotoma fuscipes Baird, 1858 . Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):495.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, California, Sonoma Co., Petaluma .

DISTRIBUTION: W Oregon through W and C California, USA, to N Baja California, Mexico.

STATUS: IUCN - Vulnerable as N. f. riparia .

SYNONYMS: affinis, annectens, bullatior, cnemophila, dispar, luciana, macrotis, martirensis, mohavensis, monochroura, perplexa, riparia, simplex, splendens, streatori.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Teonoma (see account of N. cinerea). See Carraway and Verts (1991a, Mammalian Species, 386).