Heteromys (Heteromys) australis Thomas 1901

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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scientific name	Heteromys (Heteromys) australis Thomas 1901
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Heteromys (Heteromys) australis Thomas 1901 View in CoL

Heteromys (Heteromys) australis Thomas 1901 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7: 194.

Type Locality: Ecuador, Esmeraldas Prov., Cachabi River, San Javier, below Cachabi.

Vernacular Names: Southern Spiny Pocket Mouse.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) australis subsp. australis Thomas 1901

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) australis subsp. conscius Goldman 1913

Subspecies Heteromys (Heteromys) australis subsp. pacificus Pearson 1939

Distribution: E Panama south to SW Colombia and NW Ecuador, both slopes of the Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Central and western slope of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. Disjunct population present in Cordillera de Mérida in Venezuela ( Anderson and Soriano, 1999; Anderson, 1999 [2000]).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Heteromys . Subspecies listed by Williams et al. (1993) and distribution mapped by Anderson (1999 [2000]).

References

Anderson, R. P., and P. J. Soriano. 1999. The occurrence and biogeographic significance of the southern spiny pocket mouse Heteromys australis in Venezuela. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 64: 121 - 125.

Goldman, E. A. 1913. Descriptions of new mammals from Panama and Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 60 (22): 1 - 20.

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.