Endangered
Nelson's spiny pocket mouse
Heteromys nelsoni
Nelson's spiny pocket mouse is a rodent in the family Heteromyidae (order Rodentia) — Heteromys nelsoni, recorded as Endangered.
The rodent
Rodents have ever-growing incisors. Species here are wild forms with a threat category — chipmunks, mole-rats, deer mice.
This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
It is found in Mexico and Guatemala. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Nelson's spiny pocket mouse is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Nelson's spiny pocket mouse — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q84067. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
