| Banner-tailed kangaroo rat | |
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| Drawing by Louis Agassiz Fuertes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Heteromyidae |
| Genus: | Dipodomys |
| Species: | D. spectabilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam, 1890
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The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.[2] It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night.
- ^ Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Frey, J.; Lacher, T. (2019). "Dipodomys spectabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T6693A22229212. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T6693A22229212.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Patton, J.L. (2005). "Family Heteromyidae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 848. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.