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Hodomys alleni (Allen's woodrat)

Synonyms: Hodomys alleni guerrerensis; Hodomys vetulus; Hodomys vetulus elatturus; Neotoma alleni (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Allen's woodrat (Hodomys alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Hodomys.
View Wikipedia Record: Hodomys alleni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.95
EDGE Score: 2.83
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  368 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  2
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (23 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neohaematopinus neotomae[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Neotoma alleni, Hugh H. Genoways and Elmer C. Birney, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 41, pp. 1-4 (1974)
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0