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Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Sigmodon hispidus | Hispid Cotton Rat
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
The hispid cotton rat ranges from southern Virginia and North Carolina
west through Tennessee, northern Missouri, Kansas, and extreme southern
Nebraska to southeastern Colorado, New Mexico, and southeastern Arizona;
south to the Gulf Coast; and south to northern South America [20]. It
does not occur on the coastal plain of North Carolina nor in the
mountains of Virginia. Disjunct populations occur in southeastern
Arizona and extreme southeastern California into Baja California Norte
[63]. It is fairly recent in Kansas, having appeared within the last 50
years [53].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands
STATES :
| AL |
AZ |
AR |
CA |
CO |
FL |
GA |
KS |
LA |
MS |
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NE |
NM |
NC |
OK |
SC |
TN |
TX |
VA |
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BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
7 Lower Basin and Range
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14 Great Plains
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K069 Bluestem-grama prairie
K076 Blackland prairie
K079 Palmetto prairie
K081 Oak savanna
K082 Mosaic of K074 and K100
K083 Cedar glades
K084 Cross Timbers
K088 Fayette prairie
K089 Black Belt
K091 Cypress savanna
K110 Northeastern oak-pine forest
K111 Oak-hickory-pine forest
K112 Southern mixed forest
K113 Southern floodplain forest
K114 Pocosin
K115 Sand pine scrub
K116 Subtropical pine forest
SAF COVER TYPES :
45 Pitch pine
46 Eastern redcedar
68 Mesquite
69 Sand pine
70 Longleaf pine
71 Longleaf pine-scrub oak
73 Southern redcedar
74 Cabbage palmetto
75 Shortleaf pine
76 Shortleaf pine-oak
78 Virginia pine-oak
79 Virginia pine
80 Loblolly pine-shortleaf pine
81 Loblolly pine
82 Loblolly pine-hardwood
83 Longleaf pine-slash pine
84 Slash pine
85 Slash pine-hardwood
97 Atlantic white-cedar
98 Pond pine
105 Tropical hardwoods
110 Black oak
111 South Florida slash pine
242 Mesquite
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
217 Wetlands
422 Riparian
701 Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass
717 Little bluestem-Indiangrass-Texas wintergrass
718 Mesquite-grama
727 Mesquite-buffalograss
731 Cross timbers-Oklahoma
732 Cross timbers-Texas (little bluestem-post oak)
801 Savanna
802 Missouri prairie
804 Tall fescue
808 Sand pine scrub
809 Mixed hardwood and pine
810 Longleaf pine-turkey oak hills
811 South Florida flatwoods
812 North Florida flatwoods
813 Cutthroat seeps
814 Cabbage palm flatwoods
815 Upland hardwood hammocks
816 Cabbage palm hammocks
817 Oak hammocks
820 Everglades flatwoods
PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Hispid cotton rats occur in mesquite (Prosopis spp.) bosques in Arizona
and New Mexico [41]. On the Coastal Plain hispid cotton rats occupy the
periphery of central ponds and more distant ecotonal areas of
baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) swamps [21]. Hispid cotton rats are
abundant in fallow rice fields in Texas, primarily near heavily
overgrown canalbanks and levees [2].
In Florida hispid cotton rats are common in sabal palm (Sabal
palmetto)-coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) savanna [28]. In the Southeast
hispid cotton rats prefer grassy understories of fire-maintained
loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)-shortleaf pine (P. echinata) and longleaf
pine (P. palustris)-slash pine (P. elliottii) stands [34].
In Florida sand pine (P. clausa) scrub has been invaded by hispid cotton
rats for short periods. Reasons for the invasion were not clear but
were probably related to increased population densities in nearby
optimum habitat (pine flatwoods with a dense ground cover of grasses and
herbs). Sand pine scrub has little ground cover and is marginal habitat
for hispid cotton rats [66].
REFERENCES :
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Related categories for Wildlife Species: Sigmodon hispidus
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