Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse

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| name = Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse

| image = Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse imported from iNaturalist photo 182456081 on 17 April 2022.jpg

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Reid, F. |author2=Vázquez, E. |date=2016 |title=Heteromys gaumeri |volume=2016 |page=e.T10007A22223646 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10007A22223646.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Heteromys

| species = gaumeri

| authority = J. A. Allen & Chapman, 1897

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Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.Schmidt, Cheryl A., Mark D. Engstrom, and Hugh H. Genoways. "[https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=museummammalogy Heteromys gaumeri]." (1989). It ranges over northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it lives in lowland semideciduous forest and thorn scrub. The species is nocturnal and terrestrial; it is solitary and strongly territorial. It is named after physician and biologist George F. Gaumer, who lived in the Yucatán from 1885 to 1929.