Yellow-nosed cotton rat
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| Species: | S. ochrognathus
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| Sigmodon ochrognathus Bailey, 1902
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The yellow-nosed cotton rat (Sigmodon ochrognathus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] Its range extends from the eastern side of the Sierra Madre Occidental to central Durango and western Coahuila in Mexico, and from Arizona to New Mexico and scattered desert ranges of the Mesa del Norte in Trans-Pecos Texas in the U.S. In New Mexico, it's habitat is located in mountainous scrubland and pinyon-juniper woodland regions.
References
- ^ Template:IUCN2009.2
- ^ 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. 1176. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- R. H. Baker and K. A. Shump Jr. 1978. Mammalian Species. no. 97 pp. 1-2 "Sigmodon ochrognathus" American Society of Mammalogists [Sigmodon ochrognathus http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-097-01-0001.pdf]
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