California pocket mouse
| California pocket mouse Chaetodipus californicus |
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C. californicus
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| Chaetodipus californicus (Merriam, 1889)
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The California pocket mouse, Chaetodipus californicus, is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.
Distribution
Chaetodipus californicus is native to California in the Western United States and northern Baja California state in Northwest Mexico. [1] It is found in habitats, such as California chaparral and woodlands, in Southern California throughout the Southern Sierra Nevada, Southern California Coast Ranges, and the Transverse Ranges; and in Southern California and northern Baja California in the Peninsular Ranges. [1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Chaetodipus californicus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
- Patton, J. L. 2005. Family Heteromyidae; Pp. 844-858 in "Mammal Species of the World, a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference"; D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds.; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Chaetodipus
- Mammals of Mexico
- Mammals of the United States
- Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Fauna of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Natural history of Baja California
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Transverse Ranges
- Animals described in 1889
- Heteromyidae stubs
