Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus Gray 1868

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 844-858 : 850

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Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus Gray 1868 View in CoL

Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus Gray 1868 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868: 204.

Type Locality: Guatemala, Coban.

Vernacular Names: Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. desmarestianus Gray 1868

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. chiriquensis Enders 1938

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. crassirostris Goldman 1912

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. fuscatus J. A. Allen 1908

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. goldmani Merriam 1902

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. panamensis Goldman 1912

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. planifrons Goldman 1937

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. repens Bangs 1902

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. subaffinis Goldman 1937

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. temporalis Goldman 1911

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. underwoodi Goodwin 1943

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) desmarestianus subsp. zonalis Goldman 1912

Distribution: SE Tobasco ( Mexico) south to NW Colombia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as H. desmarestianus ; Lower Risk (nt) as H. goldmani .

Discussion: Subgenus Heteromys . Goodwin (1969) and Rogers and Schmidly (1982) provided partial revisions. I follow Rogers (1990) and Williams et al. (1993) and include goldmani (contra Patton, 1993 b). Subspecies listed by Williams et al. (1993). Given the extent of chromosomal and allozymic diversity ( Rogers, 1989, 1990), desmarestianus is likely to be composite, with several described taxa to be elevated to species status and additional species to be described ( R. P. Anderson, pers. comm.).

References

Allen, J. A. 1908. Mammals from Nicaragua. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 24: 647 - 670.

Bangs, O. 1902. Chiriqui Mammalia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 39: 17 - 51.

Goldman, E. A. 1911. Revision of spiny pocket mice (genera Heteromys and Liomys). North American Fauna, 34: 1 - 70.

Goldman, E. A. 1937. The wolves of North America. Journal of Mammalogy, 18: 37 - 45.

Goodwin, G. G. 1969. Mammals from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 141: 1 - 269.

Rogers, D. S., and D. J. Schmidly. 1982. Systematics of spiny pocket mice (genus Heteromys) of the desmarestianus species group from Mexico and northern Central America. Journal of Mammalogy, 63: 375 - 386.

Rogers, D. S. 1989. Evolutionary implications of chromosomal variation among spiny pocket mice, genus Heteromys (Order Rodentia). Southwestern Naturalist, 34: 85 - 100.

Rogers, D. S. 1990. Genic evolution, historical biogeography, and systematic relationships among spiny pocket mice (subfamily Heteromyinae). Journal of Mammalogy, 71: 668 - 685.

Williams, D. F., H. H. Genoways, and J. K. Braun. 1993. Taxonomy. Pp. 38 - 196, in Biology of the Heteromyidae (H. H. Genoways and J. H. Brown, eds.). Special Publication, The American Society of Mammalogists, 10: 1 - 719.