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Mexican prairie dog
Galeana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Rodentia
Family:
Sciuridae
Genus:
Cynomys
Species:
C. mexicanus
Binomial name
Cynomys mexicanus
Merriam, 1892
The Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus) is a diurnal burrowing rodent native to Mexico. Treatment as an agricultural pest has led to its status as an endangered species. They are closely related to squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots. Cynomys mexicanus originated about 230,000 years ago from a peripherally isolated population of the more widespread Cynomys ludovicianus.[3]
^Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E. (2019). "Cynomys mexicanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T6089A139607891. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T6089A139607891.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^Gabriela Castellanos-Morales; Niza Gámez; Reyna A. Castillo-Gámez & Luis E. Eguiarte (2016), "Peripatric speciation of an endemic species driven by Pleistocene climate change: The case of the Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus)", Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 94 (Pt A): 171–181, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.027, PMID 26343460
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