The Ixtlán deer mouse (''Habromys ixtlani'') is a species of

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are na ...

in the family Cricetidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to southwestern Mexico, and found in the Sierra de Juárez, a subrange of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in

Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

state. Although it was originally described as a species, it was reevaluated by Musser in 1969, who determined it to be a subspecies of the

Zempoaltepec deer mouse The Zempoaltepec deer mouse (''Habromys lepturus'') also known as the slender-tailed deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southeastern Mexico, at one locality on Cerro Zempoaltepec above , in the Sierra ...

(''Habromys lepturus''). Another evaluation by Carleton et al. in 2002 of ''H. lepturus'' and the other species of the genus ''

Habromys ''Habromys'' is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae, found in Mexico and Central America. It contains these species, all but one (''H. lophurus'') of which are threatened or endangered, five of them critically so. ''H. lophurus'' is near ...

'' determined significant morphological differences between ''H. lepturus'' and ''H. ixtlani'', and ''H. ixtlani'' was reclassified as a separate species.

References

* Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Habromys Endemic mammals of Mexico Rodents of North America Fauna of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca Mammals described in 1964 Critically endangered biota of Mexico Critically endangered fauna of North America {{Cricetidae-stub

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