Goldman's woodrat

Goldman's woodrat (Neotoma goldmani) is a rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a Mexican species, found across the Mexican Plateau from southeastern Chihuahua to southern San Luis Potosi and northern Queretaro, a high plateau that averages about 1,830 metres above sea level. Its recognised range ends at the plateau, and the woodrat is restricted to rocky and desert habitats and shelters in crevices. Its karyotype, the arrangement of its chromosomes, is of a kind that marks it as a more primitive species than the related Mexican woodrat, Neotoma mexicana. It is not considered to be under immediate threat, although its numbers have fallen because of habitat changes across the Mexican Plateau, a heavily populated region that takes in the states of Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Jalisco and Mexico.