Zempoaltepec deer mouse

Species of rodent

Zempoaltepec deer mouse
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Habromys
Species:
H. lepturus
Binomial name
Habromys lepturus
(Merriam, 1898)

The Zempoaltepec deer mouse (Habromys lepturus) also known as the slender-tailed deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

It is endemic to southeastern Mexico, at one locality on Cerro Zempoaltepec above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Oaxaca state.

References

  1. ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Vázquez, E. (2018). "Habromys lepturus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T9609A22376889. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T9609A22376889.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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Extant species of subfamily Neotominae
Baiomyini
Baiomys
(Pygmy mice)
  • Southern pygmy mouse (B. musculus)
  • Northern pygmy mouse (B. taylori)
Scotinomys
(Brown mice)
  • Alston's brown mouse (S. teguina)
  • Chiriqui brown mouse (S. xerampelinus)
Neotomini
Neotoma
(Pack rats)
  • Subgenus Neotoma: White-throated woodrat (N. albigula)
  • Tamaulipan woodrat (N. angustapalata)
  • Bryant's woodrat (N. bryanti)
  • Nicaraguan woodrat (N. chrysomelas)
  • Arizona woodrat (N. devia)
  • Eastern woodrat (N. floridana )
  • Goldman's woodrat (N. goldmani)
  • Angel de la Guarda woodrat (N. insularis)
  • Desert woodrat (N. lepida )
  • White-toothed woodrat (N. leucodon)
  • Big-eared woodrat (N. macrotis)
  • Allegheny woodrat (N. magister)
  • Mexican woodrat (N. mexicana)
  • Southern Plains woodrat (N. micropus)
  • Nelson's woodrat (N. nelsoni)
  • Bolaños woodrat(N. palatina)
  • Stephens' woodrat (N. stephensi)
  • Subgenus Teanopus: Sonoran woodrat (N. phenax)
  • Subgenus Teonoma: Bushy-tailed woodrat (N. cinerea)
  • Dusky-footed woodrat (N. fuscipes)
Xenomys
  • Magdalena rat (X. nelsoni)
Hodomys
  • Allen's woodrat (H. alleni)
Nelsonia
(Diminutive woodrats)
  • Goldman's diminutive woodrat (N. goldmani)
  • Diminutive woodrat (N. neotomodon)
Ochrotomyini
Ochrotomys
  • Golden mouse (O. nuttalli)
Reithrodontomyini
Peromyscus
(Deer mice)
  • californicus group: California mouse (P. californicus)
  • eremicus group: Cactus mouse (P. eremicus)
  • Burt's deer mouse (P. caniceps)
  • Dickey's deer mouse (P. dickeyi)
  • Eva's desert mouse (P. eva)
  • Northern Baja deer mouse (P. fraterculus)
  • Angel Island mouse (P. guardia)
  • San Lorenzo mouse (P. interparietalis)
  • Mesquite mouse (P. merriami)
  • False canyon mouse (P. pseudocrinitus)
  • hooperi group: Hooper's mouse (P. hooperi)
  • crinitus group: Canyon mouse (P. crinitus)
  • maniculatus group: Deer mouse (P. maniculatus)
  • Northwestern deer mouse (P. keeni)
  • Black-eared mouse (P. melanotis)
  • Oldfield mouse (P. polionotus)
  • Santa Cruz mouse (P. sejugis)
  • Slevin's mouse (P. slevini)
  • leucopus group: White-footed mouse (P. leucopus)
  • Cotton mouse (P. gossypinus)
  • aztecus group: Aztec mouse (P. aztecus)
  • Gleaning mouse (P. spicilegus)
  • Winkelmann's mouse (P. winkelmanni)
  • boylii group: Brush mouse (P. boylii)
  • Texas mouse (P. attwateri)
  • Nimble-footed mouse (P. levipes)
  • Tres Marias Island mouse (P. madrensis)
  • White-ankled mouse (P. pectoralis)
  • Chihuahuan mouse (P. polius)
  • Schmidly's deer mouse (P. schmidlyi)
  • Nayarit mouse (P. simulus)
  • San Esteban Island mouse (P. stephani)
  • truei group: Pinyon mouse (P. truei)
  • Perote mouse (P. bullatus)
  • Zacatecan deer mouse (P. difficilis)
  • Osgood's mouse (P. gratus)
  • Northern rock mouse (P. nasutus)
  • melanophrys group: Plateau mouse (P. melanophrys)
  • Puebla deer mouse (P. mekisturus)
  • Marsh mouse (P. perfulvus)
  • furvus group: Blackish deer mouse (P. furvus)
  • Maya mouse (P. mayensis)
  • El Carrizo deer mouse (P. ochraventer)
  • megalops group: Brown deer mouse (P. megalops)
  • Zempoaltepec (P. melanocarpus)
  • Black-tailed mouse (P. melanurus)
  • mexicanus group: Mexican deer mouse (P. mexicanus)
  • Big deer mouse (P. grandis)
  • Guatemalan deer mouse (P. guatemalensis)
  • Naked-eared deer mouse (P. gymnotis)
  • Stirton's deer mouse (P. stirtoni)
  • Yucatan deer mouse (P. yucatanicus)
  • Chiapan deer mouse (P. zarhynchus)
Reithrodontomys
(New World
harvest mice)
  • Guerrero harvest mouse (R. bakeri)
  • Short-nosed harvest mouse (R. brevirostris)
  • Sonoran harvest mouse (R. burti)
  • Volcano harvest mouse (R. chrysopsis)
  • Chiriqui harvest mouse (R. creper)
  • Darien harvest mouse (R. darienensis)
  • Fulvous harvest mouse (R. fulvescens)
  • Slender harvest mouse (R. gracilis)
  • Hairy harvest mouse (R. hirsutus)
  • Eastern harvest mouse (R. humulis)
  • Western harvest mouse (R. megalotis)
  • Mexican harvest mouse (R. mexicanus)
  • Small-toothed harvest mouse (R. microdon)
  • Plains harvest mouse (R. montanus)
  • Small harvest mouse (R. musseri)
  • Nicaraguan harvest mouse (R. paradoxus)
  • Salt marsh harvest mouse (R. raviventris)
  • Rodriguez's harvest mouse (R. rodriguezi)
  • Cozumel harvest mouse (R. spectabilis)
  • Sumichrast's harvest mouse (R. sumichrasti)
  • Narrow-nosed harvest mouse (R. tenuirostris)
  • Zacatecas harvest mouse (R. zacatecae)
Onychomys
(Grasshopper mice)
  • Mearns's grasshopper mouse (O. arenicola)
  • Northern grasshopper mouse (O. leucogaster)
  • Southern grasshopper mouse (O. torridus)
Neotomodon
  • Mexican volcano mouse (N. alstoni)
Podomys
  • Florida mouse (P. floridanus)
Isthmomys
(Isthmus rats)
  • Yellow isthmus rat (I. flavidus)
  • Mount Pirri isthmus rat (I. pirrensis)
Megadontomys
(Giant deer mice)
  • Oaxaca giant deer mouse (M. cryophilus)
  • Nelson's giant deer mouse (M. nelsoni)
  • Thomas's giant deer mouse (M. thomasi)
Habromys
(Deer mice)
  • Chinanteco deer mouse (H. chinanteco)
  • Delicate deer mouse (H. delicatulus)
  • Ixtlán deer mouse (H. ixtlani)
  • Zempoaltepec deer mouse (H. lepturus)
  • Crested-tailed deer mouse (H. lophurus)
  • Schmidly's deer mouse (H. schmidlyi)
  • Jico deer mouse (H. simulatus)
Osgoodomys
  • Michoacan deer mouse (O. banderanus)
Taxon identifiers
Habromys lepturus


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