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
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) humulis
(Audubon and Bachman 1841)
[Mus] humulis
Audubon and Bachman 1841
,
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia
, 1: 97
.
Type Locality:
USA
,
South Carolina
, Charleston Co., vicinity of Charleston.
Vernacular Names:
Eastern Harvest Mouse
.
Synonyms:
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) carolinensis
(Audubon and Bachman 1842)
;
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) dickinsoni
Rhoads 1895
;
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) impiger
Bangs 1898
;
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) lecontii
(Audubon and Bachman 1842)
;
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) merriami
J. A. Allen 1895
;
Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) virginianus
A. H. Howell 1940
.
Distribution:
SE
USA
, from E
Oklahoma
and E
Texas
eastwards to the Atlantic seaboard, from S
Maryland
to peninsular
Florida
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Subgenus
Reithrodontomys
,
megalotis
species group. The standard and banded karyotypes depart markedly from other species of the
megalotis
group, and substantial variation in fundamental numbers has been reported among populations (
Bradley et al, 1988
;
Carleton and Myers, 1979
; Engstrom et al., 1981;
Robbins and Baker, 1980
). Genetically strongly divergent from six other species of the subgenus
Reithrodontomys
based on cytochrome
b
sequences (
Bell et al., 2001
).
Whitaker and Hamilton (1998)
regarded the subspecies
virginianus
and
humulis
as broadly intergrading and synonymized the former; L.
Choate and Jones (1998)
mentioned possible westward expansion of
R
. h.
merriami
in
Oklahoma
. See
Stalling (1997
, Mammalian Species, 565).