Pictures and facts about the Kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and relatives

agile kangaroo rat	pale kangaroo mouse
Trinidad spiny pocket mouse	Mexican spiny pocket mouse
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Kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and relatives

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Heteromyidae

Facts about the family Heteromyidae, the kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and relatives

Hafner The distribution of kangaroo mice, genus Microdipodops (Rodentia: Heteromyidae), is limited exclusively to the hydrographic Great Basin region of western North America (Hafner, 1978; 1993). (Full text)

Fleischer Abstract The giant kangaroo rat, Dipodomys ingens (Heteromyidae), is (Full text)

The San Bernardino kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami parvus), a member of the family Heteromyidae, is one of 19 recognized subspecies of Merriam's kangaroo rat (D. (Full text)

Main Entry: heteromyidae heteromyidae is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged. (Full text)

The Heteromyidae is a family of long-tailed rats and mice with fur-lined cheek pouches. (Full text)

The family Heteromyidae is comprised of kangaroo mice, kangaroo rats and pocket mice. (Full text)