Sigmodon hispidus

TaxID: 42415

Basic Information

Sigmodon hispidus

Hispid Cotton Rat, hispid cotton rat

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. toltecus, and S. hirsutus). The distribution of S. hispidus ranges from Arizona in the west to Virginia to the east and from the Platte River in Nebraska in the north to, likely, the Rio Grande in the south, where it meets the northern edge of the distribution of S. toltecus (formerly S. h. toltecus). Adult size is total length 202 C340 mm (8.0 C13.4 in); tail 87 C122 mm (3.4 C4.8 in), frequently broken or stubbed; hind foot 29 C35 mm (1.1 C1.4 in); ear 16 C20 mm (0.63 C0.79 in); mass 50 C250 g (1.8 C8.8 oz). They have been used as laboratory animals.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Chordata

Mammalia

Rodentia

Cricetidae

Sigmodon

hispidus

nan

Photos (5 photos)

Sigmodon hispidus
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(c) Juan Cruzado Cortés@BY-SA
Sigmodon hispidus
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(c) Scott Buckel@BY-NC
Sigmodon hispidus
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(c) Kevin Metcalf@BY-NC
Sigmodon hispidus
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(c) Juan Cruzado Cortés@BY-SA
Sigmodon hispidus
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(c) Scott Buckel@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Mexico Quarantine pests —

Distribution (12 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Belize Present —
China Present —
Colombia Present —
Costa Rica Present —
Ecuador Present —
Guatemala Present —
Honduras Present —
Mexico Present —
Nicaragua Present —
Panama Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_004025045.1 Scaffold 2730 67 101 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR30479196 liver rep4 - female 23388448 China: Beijing
SRR30479195 spleen rep1 - female 23696493 China: Beijing
SRR30479194 spleen rep2 - female 23664599 China: Beijing

DNA Barcodes (117 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
TOPO659-10 BOLD:AAA4850 COI-5P 627 Mexico 2008-09-03 21.217, -87.183
TOPO658-10 BOLD:AAA4850 COI-5P 652 Mexico 2010-06-16 17.83, -91.249
TOPO657-10 BOLD:AAA4852 COI-5P 632 Mexico 1998-09-24 16.7, -92.6
MYPMX049-10 BOLD:AAA1671 COI-5P 435 Mexico 1996-06-16 19.3, -87.548
MYPMX046-10 BOLD:AAA1671 COI-5P 435 Mexico 1998-07-04 18.124, -89.816
MYPMX045-10 BOLD:AAA1671 COI-5P 657 Mexico 1995-03-28 19.992, -87.471
MAMN9018-23 BOLD:AAA4853 COI-5P 657 United States - 39.047, -95.202
MAMN9007-23 BOLD:AAA4853 COI-5P 657 United States - 39.052, -95.194
MAMN9001-23 BOLD:AAA4853 COI-5P 657 United States - 39.047, -95.202
MAMN8648-23 BOLD:AAA4853 COI-5P 657 United States - 35.419, -99.051
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Literature