Spiny Pocket Mouse

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Spiny Pocket Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Heteromyidae Genus: Chaetodipus Species: C. spinatus
Binomial name
Chaetodipus spinatus (Merriam, 1889)

The Spiny Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus spinatus) is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Chaetodipus spinatus. 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.

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