Pack rat

Pack rat
Temporal range: Late Cenozoic - Recent
Bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Tribe: Neotomini
Genus: Neotoma
Say & Ord, 1825
Type species
Mus floridana
Ord, 1818
Species

Neotoma albigula
Neotoma angustapalata
Neotoma chrysomelas
Neotoma cinerea
Neotoma devia
Neotoma ferruginea
†Neotoma findleyi
Neotoma floridana
Neotoma fuscipes
Neotoma goldmani
Neotoma insularis
Neotoma lepida
Neotoma leucodon
Neotoma macrotis
Neotoma magister
Neotoma melanura
Neotoma mexicana
Neotoma micropus
Neotoma nelsoni
Neotoma palatina
Neotoma phenax
Neotoma stephensi

The pack rat or packrat, also called the wood rat or trade rat, is a rodent. It is one of many species in the genus Neotoma. Very often, people mean the bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea). Packrats are common in the deserts and highlands of the western United States and northern Mexico. They are smaller than a usual (Old World) rat, and usually have long, sometimes bushy tails. They are also not related to the rat, other than also being a rodent.

Species

Neotoma has three subgenera. daggers (†) show extinct species.[1]

  • Subgenus Neotoma
    • Neotoma albigula - white-throated woodrat
      • Neotoma albigula varia - Turner Island woodrat
    • Neotoma angustapalata - Tamaulipan woodrat
    • Neotoma bryanti - Bryant's woodrat
      • †Neotoma bryanti anthonyi - Anthony's woodrat
      • †Neotoma bryanti bunkeri - Bunker's woodrat
      • †Neotoma bryanti martinensis - San Martín Island woodrat
    • Neotoma chrysomelas - Nicaraguan woodrat
    • Neotoma devia - Arizona woodrat
    • Neotoma ferruginea - Guatemala woodrat
    • †Neotoma findleyi - Findley's woodrat
    • Neotoma floridana - eastern woodrat (Florida woodrat)
      • Neotoma floridana smalli - Key Largo woodrat
    • Neotoma fuscipes - dusky-footed woodrat
    • Neotoma goldmani - Goldman's woodrat
    • Neotoma insularis - Angel de la Guarda woodrat[2]
    • Neotoma lepida - desert woodrat
    • Neotoma leucodon - white-toothed woodrat
    • Neotoma macrotis - big-eared woodrat
    • Neotoma magister - Allegheny woodrat
    • Neotoma melanura[3] - Black-tailed woodrat
    • Neotoma mexicana - Mexican woodrat
    • Neotoma micropus - Southern Plains woodrat
    • Neotoma nelsoni - Nelson's woodrat
    • Neotoma palatina - Bolaños woodrat
    • Neotoma stephensi - Stephens' woodrat
  • Subgenus Teanopus
    • Neotoma phenax - Sonoran woodrat
  • Subgenus Teonoma
    • Neotoma cinerea - bushy-tailed woodrat
Alleghany woodrat

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ↑ Patton, J. & Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. 2017. Neotoma insularis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T116989038A119112253. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T116989038A119112253.en. Downloaded on 12 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Bradley, R.D.; Mauldin, M.R. (January 2016). "Molecular data indicate a cryptic species in Neotoma albigula (Cricetidae: Neotominae) from northwestern México". Journal of Mammalogy. 97 (1): 187–199. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyv169.

Further reading

  • Betancourt, Julio L., Thomas R. Van Devender, and Paul S. Martin, eds. Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change, University of Arizona Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8165-1115-2.
  • Duff, A. and A. Lawson. 2004. Mammals of the World A Checklist. New Haven, Yale University Press.
  • Kays, R. W., and D. E. Wilson. 2002. Mammals of North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 240 pp.
  • 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.
  • Ord, G., 1815. Zoology of North America, in Guthrie's Geography, 2nd American edition, pp. 291–361. [reprint Rhoads, S.N. Philadelphia, 1894], p. 292.
  • Smith, F.A.; Betancourt, J.L.; Brown, J.H. (1995). "Evolution of body size in the woodrat over the past 25,000 years of climate change". Science. 270 (5244): 2012–2014. Bibcode:1995Sci...270.2012S. doi:10.1126/science.270.5244.2012. S2CID 129915445.
  • Ulev, Elena 2007. Neotoma cinerea. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/ [2011, February 25].
  • Zakrzewski, J. Richard (1974). "Fossil Ondatrini from Western North America". Journal of Mammalogy. 55 (2): 284–292. doi:10.2307/1378998. JSTOR 1378998.
  • Linsdale, J. M., and L. P. Tevis. 1951. The dusky-footed wood rat. Records made on Hastings Natural History Reservation. Berkeley, California. pp 675 .
  • Burt, W. H., and R. P. Grossenheider. 1976. A field guide to the mammals, 3d ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. pp 289.
  • Schwartz, C. W., and E. R. Schwartz. 1981. The wild mammals of Missouri, rev. ed. Univ. Missouri Press, Columbia. pp 356.
  • Vorhies, C. T.; Taylor, W. P. (1940). "Life history and ecology of the white-throated wood rat, Neotoma albigula Hartly, in relation to grazing in Arizona". Univ. Arizona Tech. Bull. 49: 467–587.
  • Wiley, R. W. (1980). "Neotoma floridana". Mamm. Species. 139 (139): 1–7. doi:10.2307/3503989. JSTOR 3503989. S2CID 253943361.

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