Eastern Woodrat
Neotoma floridana (Ord, 1818)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 19 counties across five states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma

Counties

Alabama

Bibb, DeKalb, Marshall

Arkansas

Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Lawrence, Marion, Polk, Searcy, Stone

Florida

Alachua, Columbia, Jackson, Marion, Suwannee

Georgia

Dade, Walker

Oklahoma

Delaware

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

LC Least Concern

Assessed in 2016.

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

United States

N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Illinois

S2 Imperiled

North Carolina

S3 Vulnerable

Alabama

S4 Apparently Secure

South Carolina

S3 Vulnerable

Texas

S5 Secure

Arkansas

S4 Apparently Secure

Oklahoma

SNR Unranked

Missouri

S4 Apparently Secure

Georgia

S5 Secure

Kansas

S5 Secure

Tennessee

SNR Unranked

Louisiana

S4 Apparently Secure

Colorado

S3 Vulnerable

Mississippi

SNR Unranked

Florida

S5 Secure

NE

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

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• Fenolio, D.B., Slay, M.E. & Niemiller, M.L. 2023. Biological inventories of caves in the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma: December 2023 field report. Report to Oklahoma Biological Survey. San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas, USA. 24 pp.
• Fenolio, D.B., Slay, M.E., Niemiller, M.L. & Richard, K. 2024. Biological inventories of caves in the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma: December 2024 field report. Report to Oklahoma Biological Survey. San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas, USA. 17 pp.
• Franz, R., Bauer, J. & Morris, T. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20: 1–109. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229726.
• Heath, D.R., Saugey, D.A. & Heidt, G.A. 1986. Abandoned mine fauna of the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 40: 33–36.
• Mays, J. 2018. Inventory of Florida's cave fauna with a focus on terrestrial invertebrate species. Progress Report for Florida Park Service. Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 9 pp.
• McDaniel, V.R. & Gardner, J.E. 1977. Cave fauna of Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 31: 68–71. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol31/iss1/22.
• McGregor, S.W., Rheams, K.F., O'Neil, P.E., Moser, P.H. & Blackwood, R. 1994. Biological, geological, and hydrological investigations in Bobcat, Matthews, and Shelta caves and other selected caves in north Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. 226 pp.
• McGregor, S.W., O'Neil, P.E., Rheams, K.F., Moser, P.H. & Blackwood, R. 1997. Biological, geological, and hydrological investigations in Bobcat, Matthews, and Shelta caves and other selected caves in north Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama Bulletin 166: 1–198.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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