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Heteromyidae Gray 1868
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Description
Family HETEROMYIDAE
(POCKET MICE, KANGAROO MICE AND KANGAROO RATS)
• Small, non-fossorial nocturnal rodents with external, fur-lined cheek pouches.
• 10-35 cm.
• Nearctic and Neotropical Regions.
• From arid deserts to humid tropical forests, including grasslands and chaparral, from cold temperate zones to tropics, from sea level to 3200 m.
• 5 genera, 66 species, 319 axa.
• 1 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 4 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Heteromyidae, pp. 170-233 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 170, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6611160
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Heteromyidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heteromyidae Gray, 1868 sec. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier, 2016