Desert Pocket Mouse

Common Name
Desert Pocket Mouse
Order
Rodentia
Family
Heteromyidae
Species Name
Chaetodipus penicillatus
States
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Nevada
Utah

Distribution

Southeastern California and southern Nevada to southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico to northeastern Baja California and Sonora, Mexico.

Notes

Revised by Hoffmeister and Lee (1967). Subspecies reviewed by Williams et al. (1993). Excludes Chihuahuan Desert subspecies atrodorsalis and eremicus, now regarded as a separate species, C. eremicus (see account above and Lee et al., 1996). Sometimes c