Grasshopper mouse

Grasshopper mice
Temporal range: Early Pliocene – Present
A grasshopper mouse eating a beetle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Tribe: Reithrodontomyini
Genus: Onychomys
Baird, 1857
Type species
Hypudaeus leucogaster[1]
Species

Grasshopper mice are rodents of the genus Onychomys, occurring in North America. They feed on insects and other arthropods.

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.