Photo Credit: Clay DeGayner
Date 11 January 2006, 21:58
Source Key Largo woodrat
Author U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Key_Largo_woodrat_(15610225542).jpg

The eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), also known as the Florida woodrat or bush rat is a pack rat native to the central and Eastern United States. It constructs large dens that may serve as nests for many generations and stores food in outlying caches for the winter. While widespread and not uncommon, it has declined or disappeared in several areas.
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neotoma
Species: Neotoma floridana (Ord, 1818)
Synonyms:
Neotoma attwateri Mearns, 1897
Neotoma baileyi Merriam, 1894
Neotoma campestris J. A. Allen, 1894
Neotoma floridana haematoreia A. H. Howell, 1934
Neotoma floridana illinoensis A. H. Howell, 1910
Neotoma floridana osagensis Blair, 1939
Neotoma floridana rubida Bangs, 1898
Neotoma floridana smalli Sherman, 1955