Hispid Cotton Rat – Sigmodon hispidus

Sigmodon hispidusSay and Ord, 1825

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Subgenus Sigmodon, S. hispidus species group. The morphological limits of hispidus, as set forth by Bailey (1902) and expanded by others (Cabrera, 1961; Hall, 1981; Hall and Kelson, 1959; Miller, 1924), were first uncovered as composite by Zimmerman (1970), an insight supported and extended by others (Carleton et al., 1999; Peppers and Bradley, 2000; Severinghaus and Hoffmeister, 1978; Voss, 1992). The much reified definition of S. hispidus corresponds to a species restricted to open landscapes in the SC and SE USA and NC México (see Carleton et al., 1999; Peppers and Bradley, 2000). See comments under S. arizonae, S. hirsutus, S. inopinatus, S. mascotensis, S. peruanus, S. toltecus, and S. zanjonensis, forms formerly ranked as subspecies.Given the substantial reconstitution of S. hispidus, conventional recognition of subspecies (e.g., Ha... [truncated]

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