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Heteromys catopterius  Anderson and Gutiérrez, 2009
Taxonomic Serial No.: 900646

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
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  Common Name(s): Overlook Spiny Pocket Mouse [English]
  
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderRodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents  
                                  SuborderCastorimorpha A. E. Wood, 1955  
                                     FamilyHeteromyidae Gray, 1868 – heteromyid rodents, Kangaroo Mice, Kangaroo Rats, Pocket Mice  
                                        SubfamilyHeteromyinae Gray, 1868  
                                           GenusHeteromys Desmarest, 1817 – Forest Spiny Pocket Mice  
                                              SubgenusHeteromys (Heteromys) Desmarest, 1817  
                                                 SpeciesHeteromys catopterius Anderson and Gutiérrez, 2009 – Overlook Spiny Pocket Mouse  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Anderson, Robert P., and Eliécer E. Gutiérrez   
  Publication Date: 2009   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 2. Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History of the Genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in Central and Eastern Venezuela, with the Description of a New Species from the Cordillera de la Costa   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 331, no. 1   
  Page(s): 33-93   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0003-0090   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1206/582-2.1   
  Reference for: original description, Overlook Spiny Pocket Mouse [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Rogers, Duke S., and Malinda W. González   
  Publication Date: 2010   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogenetic relationships among spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 91, no. 4   
  Page(s): 914-930   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0022-2372   
  Notes: doi: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-287.1   
  Reference for: Heteromys catopterius   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: South America  
       
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