Yellow isthmus rat
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Conservation status | |
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Neotominae |
Genus: | Isthmomys |
Species: | I. flavidus |
Binomial name | |
Isthmomys flavidus (Bangs, 1902) |
The yellow isthmus rat (Isthmomys flavidus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Panama. It was discovered by W. W. Brown Jr. on the southern slope of Volcan de Chiriqui (8° 49' N, 82° 32' W). He found it common in the upland forest from 1000 to 1500m, but no specimens were taken above or below these elevations (Bangs 1902; Goldman 1920; Goodwin 1946). Museum records specify two isolated populations in western Panama, one at Cerro Colorado where R. Pine et al. collected in 1980 (8° 31' 60N, 81° 49' 0W) and at Cerro Hoya on the Azuero Peninsula by C. Handley in 1962 (7° 23' N, 80° 38' W). The presence of I. flavidus or a closely allied form in Costa Rica is probable (Goodwin 1946), however, no specimens have been reported. There are no currently known fossil records of Isthmomys (McKenna and Bell 1997).
References
- ^ Samudio, R.; Timm, R. (2019). "Isthmomys flavidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T10886A22344833. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T10886A22344833.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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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
- Order: Rodentia
- Family: Cricetidae
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Scotinomys (Brown mice) |
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Neotoma (Pack rats) |
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Xenomys |
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Hodomys |
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Nelsonia (Diminutive woodrats) |
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Ochrotomys |
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Peromyscus (Deer mice) |
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Reithrodontomys (New World harvest mice) |
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Onychomys (Grasshopper mice) |
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Neotomodon |
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Podomys |
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Isthmomys (Isthmus rats) |
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Megadontomys (Giant deer mice) |
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Habromys (Deer mice) |
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Osgoodomys |
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