Eastern woodrat

Eastern woodrat
	An individual of the Neotoma floridana smalli subspecies
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Neotoma
Species:	N. floridana
Binomial name
	Neotoma floridana; (Ord, 1818)
Subspecies
	click to expand N. f. attwateri Mearns, 1897 ; N. f. baileyi Merriam, 1894 ; N. f. campestris J. A. Allen, 1894 ; N. f. haematoreia A. H. Howell, 1934 ; N. f. illinoensis A. H. Howell, 1910 ; N. f. osagensis Blair, 1939 ; N. f. rubida Bangs, 1898 ; N. f. smalli Sherman, 1955 ;

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.

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