Reithrodontomys montanus
(S. F. Baird, 1855)
Plains Harvest Mouse
Distribution :
High Plains of C USA, from W South Dakota and E Wyoming to EC Texas and extreme SE Arizona; NE Sonora and Chihuahua to N Durango, México.
Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 6315
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Cricetidae |
| Subfamily | : Neotominae |
| Tribe | : Reithrodontomyini |
| Genus | : Reithrodontomys |
| Subgenus | : Reithrodontomys |
Species status
Authority citation
Baird, S.F. 1855-06-15. Characteristics of some new species of North American Mammalia, collected chiefly in connection with the U. S. surveys of a railroad route to the Pacific. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7:333-336.
Authority publication link
Original name as described
Reithrodon montanus
Type material
USNM:MAMM:441 (= USNM:MAMM:A1306)
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
Type locality
"vicinity of the Rocky Mountains, lat. 38°." Restricted by J. A. Allen in 1895 to "near the upper end of the San Luis Valley in Colorado, " USA.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic
Country distribution
United States · Mexico
Subregion distribution
USA(KS, AZ, AR, SD, WY, ND, OK, CO, TX)
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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Names and synonyms
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