Nelson's Pocket Mouse

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Nelson's Pocket Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Chaetodipus
Species: C. nelsoni
Binomial name
Chaetodipus nelsoni
(Merriam, 1894)

Nelson's Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Chaetodipus nelsoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • 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.