Miahuatlán cotton rat

Miahuatlán cotton rat
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Sigmodon
Species:	S. planifrons
Binomial name
Sigmodon planifrons Nelson & Goldman, 1933

The Miahuatlán cotton rat (Sigmodon planifrons) was formerly considered a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.^[2] It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where it lives in deciduous tropical forest.^[1] The IUCN currently considers it to be conspecific with Sigmodon alleni.^[3]

References

1. Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J. (2008). "Sigmodon planifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2009.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
2. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
3. de Grammont, P.C.; Cuarón, A.D. (2018). "Sigmodon alleni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T115591937A22355693. Retrieved 27 December 2019.