Cotton rat
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Through North America, South America and Molar (tooth)
They are primarily herbivores. The molars of cotton rats are S-shaped when viewed from above. The genus name literally means S-tooth.
Sigmodon hispidus was the first model organism to be used in polio research.
Classification
- Genus Sigmodon
- Subgenus Sigmodon
- Sigmodon hispidus species group
- Sigmodon alleni - Allen's cotton rat
- Sigmodon arizonae - Arizona cotton rat
- Sigmodon hirsutus - Southern cotton rat
- Sigmodon hispidus - Hispid cotton rat
- Sigmodon mascotensis - Jaliscan cotton rat
- Sigmodon ochrognathus - Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Sigmodon planifrons - Miahuatlán cotton rat
- Sigmodon toltecus - Toltec cotton rat
- Sigmodon zanjonensis - montane cotton rat
- Sigmodon fulviventer species group
- Sigmodon fulviventer - tawny-bellied cotton rat
- Sigmodon inopinatus - unexpected cotton rat
- Sigmodon leucotis - white-eared cotton rat
- Sigmodon peruanus - Peruvian cotton rat
- Sigmodon hispidus species group
- Subgenus Sigmomys
- Sigmodon alstoni - Alston's cotton rat
- Subgenus Sigmodon
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