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Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Heteromyidae
Genus:	Heteromys
Species:	H. gaumeri
Binomial name
Heteromys gaumeri J. A. Allen & Chapman, 1897

Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It ranges over northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it lives in lowland semideciduous forest and thorn scrub. The species is nocturnal and terrestrial; it is solitary and strongly territorial. It is named after physician and biologist George F. Gaumer, who lived in the Yucatán from 1885 to 1929.

References

1. ^ Reid, F.; Vázquez, E. (2016). "Heteromys gaumeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10007A22223646. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10007A22223646.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Schmidt, Cheryl A., Mark D. Engstrom, and Hugh H. Genoways. "Heteromys gaumeri." (1989).

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