Merriam's Pocket Mouse

Merriam's Pocket Mouse
Merriam's Pocket Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Perognathus
Species: P. merriami
Binomial name
Perognathus merriami
J. A. Allen, 1892

Merriam's Pocket Mouse (Perognathus merriami) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.[2] It is found in Mexico and New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas in the United States.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Perognathus merriami. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 January 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
  2. ^ Patton, James L. (16 November 2005). "Family Heteromyidae (pp. 844-858)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 858. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12700360. 

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