Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 955 1189 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Neotoma (Neotoma) magister Baird 1857 Neotoma (Neotoma) magister Baird 1857 , Mammalia , in: Repts. U. S. Expl. Surv., Vol. 8: 498 . Type Locality: USA , Pennsylvania , cave near Carlisle (Cumberland Co.) and Harrisburg (Dauphin Co.). Vernacular Names: Allegheny Woodrat . Synonyms: Neotoma (Neotoma) pennsylvanica Stone 1893 . Distribution: Allegheny Mountains, E USA , along a southwesterly tract from extreme SE New York and NW New Jersey to N Alabama and NW Georgia ; isolated pockets in S Indiana and S Ohio . Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). Discussion: Subgenus Neotoma , floridana species group ( sensu Edwards and Bradley, 2002 b ). Originally described as a species, retained as such by Goldman (1910) , later placed as a subspecies of N. floridana by Burt and Barkalow (1942) . Birney (1976) , however, noted that magister may prove distinct from N. floridana , an assessment borne out by subsequent morphological and genetic studies ( Edwards and Bradley, 2001 ; Hayes and Harrison, 1992 ; Hayes and Richmond, 1993 ; Planz et al., 1996 ). Historical biogeography and timing of divergence from N. floridana postulated by Hayes and Harrison (1992) and Edwards and Bradley (2001) .