Hispid Cotton Rat
Sigmodon hispidus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,830
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) is a rat long thought to occur in parts of South America, Central America, and southern North America. However, recent taxonomic revisions, based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data, have split this widely distributed species into three separate species (S. hispidus, S.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Hispid cotton rat”.