Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse

Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.^[2] It ranges over northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it lives in lowland semideciduous forest and thorn scrub.^[1] The species is nocturnal and terrestrial; it is solitary and strongly territorial.^[1] It is named after physician and biologist George F. Gaumer, who lived in the Yucatán from 1885 to 1929.

Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Heteromyidae
Genus:	Heteromys
Species:	H. gaumeri
Binomial name
Heteromys gaumeri J. A. Allen & Chapman, 1897