Big-eared Woodrat

Big-eared Woodrat
Big-eared Woodrat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neotoma
Species: N. macrotis
Binomial name
Neotoma macrotis
Thomas, 1893

The Big-eared Woodrat (Neotoma macrotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] A study of the species found that the "Bear Canyon" virus, traditionally associated with the California mouse, is actually passed by the Big-eared Woodrat before host-jumping to the California mouse.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Neotoma macrotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/14144. Retrieved 21 March 2011. 
  2. ^ Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1057. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000417. 
  3. ^ Cajimat, M. N. B.; Milazzo, M. L.; Hess, B. D.; Rood, M. P.; Fulhorst, C. F. (2007-10-25). "Principal host relationships and evolutionary history of the North American arenaviruses". Virology (Elsevier) 367 (2): 235–243. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2007.05.031. PMID 17624390. 

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