Miahuatlán cotton rat

The Miahuatlán cotton rat (Sigmodon planifrons) was formerly considered a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.^[2] It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where it lives in deciduous tropical forest.^[1] The IUCN currently considers it to be conspecific with Sigmodon alleni.^[3]

Miahuatlán cotton rat
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Sigmodon
Species:	S. planifrons
Binomial name
Sigmodon planifrons Nelson & Goldman, 1933