Chihuahuan pocket mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Heteromyidae |
Genus: | Chaetodipus |
Species: | C. eremicus
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Binomial name | |
Chaetodipus eremicus (Mearns, 1898)
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Synonyms | |
C. pencillatus eremicus |
The Chihuahuan pocket mouse (Chaetodipus eremicus) is a species of heteromyid rodent[1][2] found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the desert pocket mouse (C. pencillatus), but was determined to be a distinct species in 1996, following analysis of its mitochondrial DNA.[3]