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title: "Rat de coton hispide"
description: "Sigmodon hispidus — Mammifères. The hispid cotton rat is a rat long thought to occur in parts of South America, Central America, and southern North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/hispid-cotton-rat
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rat de coton hispide

> Sigmodon hispidus — Mammifères. The hispid cotton rat is a rat long thought to occur in parts of South America, Central America, and southern North America.

- Scientific name: *Sigmodon hispidus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammifères)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prairies et champs)
- iNaturalist observations: 7276
- Wikidata: [Q941564](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q941564)
- iNaturalist taxon: [44902](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/44902)

## Names

- en: Hispid Cotton Rat
- de: Stachlige Baumwollratte
- es: Rata algodonera crespa
- fr: Rat de coton hispide
- nl: Katoenrat
- pl: Bawełniak szczeciniasty

## Countries with the most observations

US (5672), MX (122)

## Summary

The hispid cotton rat is a rat long thought to occur in parts of South America, Central America, and southern North America. However, recent taxonomic revisions, based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data, have split this widely distributed species into three separate species. The distribution of S. hispidus ranges from Arizona in the west to Virginia to the east and from the Platte River in Nebraska in the north to, likely, the Rio Grande in the south, where it meets the northern edge of the distribution of S. toltecus. Adult size is total length 202–340 mm (8.0–13.4 in); tail 87–122 mm…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispid_cotton_rat

## Photo

![Rat de coton hispide](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hispid-cotton-rat/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jade Fortnash · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68783204

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/hispid-cotton-rat?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).