Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse

  FAMILY -               Heteromyidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Heteromys gaumeri

  REFERENCES - 3

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Yucatan Peninsula endemic                                  1
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Corozal                                                              4
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Shipstern Nature Reserve              Captured or Mist net Dry season       4
  Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve       Collected as voucher March            5
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15'           4
  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30'           5
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            5
  Subtropical moist                            4
  

  General Distribution Comments

  5* ROM Rockstone Pond
  2* not shown for Belize

  References

  1  McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter
     25 (2-3).
  
  2  Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley &
     Sons. New York. 1:599
  
  3  Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993.  Mammal Species of the World, a
     Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst.
     p.481
  
  4  Quigley, H. B., B. W. Miller, C. M. Miller. 1995.  Mammal Survey,
     Shipstern Nature Reserve, April 4-13, 1995. Unpublished report for ITCF.
  
  5  ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario
     Museum.