Liomys pictus (Thomas 1893)

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 : 852

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scientific name	Liomys pictus (Thomas 1893)
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Liomys pictus (Thomas 1893) View in CoL

[Liomys] pictus ( Thomas 1893) View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 12: 233.

Type Locality: Mexico, Jalisco, San Sebastian, 4,300 ft. (1,311 m).

Vernacular Names: Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Liomys pictus subsp. pictus Thomas 1893

Subspecies Liomys pictus subsp. annectens Merriam 1902

Subspecies Liomys pictus subsp. hispidus J. A. Allen 1897

Subspecies Liomys pictus subsp. plantinarensis Merriam 1902

Distribution: West coast of Mexico from Sonora to Chiapas, and east coast in Veracruz south to extreme NW Guatemala.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by McGhee and Genoways (1978, Mammalian Species No. 83). Genic data suggest that pictus as currently comprised is paraphyletic; additional species are likely to be recognized with further analyses (see Morales and Engstrom, 1989, and Rogers, 1990). Williams et al. (1993) reviewed subspecific taxonomy.

References

McGhee, M. E., and H. H. Genoways. 1978. Liomys pictus. Mammalian Species, 83: 1 - 5.

Morales, J. C., and M. D. Engstrom. 1989. Morphological variation in the painted spiny pocket mouse, Liomys pictus (Family Heteromyidae), from Colima and southern Jalisco, Mexico. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences, Occasional Papers, 38: 1 - 16.

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

Thomas, O. 1893. On some new Bornean mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 11: 341 - 347.

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.