Common Name
Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Species Name
Sigmodon ochrognathus
Status
Lower Risk
States
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Distribution
SE Arizona, extreme SW New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas, south to C Durango, Mexico; northern outlier population may persist in Guadalupe Mountains, Transpecos, Texas
Notes
Diurnal and fairly easy to observe dashing from one area of cover to another. Usually nests aboveground, but may use pocket gopher burrows. Lives on rocky slopes with scattered clumps of grass in foothills and mountains; occupies drier and more upland ter