Common Name
Hispid Pocket Mouse
Order
Rodentia
Family
Heteromyidae
Species Name
Chaetodipus hispidus
States
Arizona
Colorado
Kansas
Louisiana
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Wyoming
Distribution
Great Plains from southern North Dakota to southeastern Arizona and western Louisiana (USA), south to Tamaulipas and Hidalgo (Mexico).
Notes
Revised by Glass (1947); subspecies listed by Hall (1981) and Williams et al. (1993). Reviewed by Paulson (1988b, Mammalian Species No. 320). Type species of monotypic subgenus Burtognathus Hoffmeister. Does not hop as much as other pocket mice. Active
Oklahoma
The largest pocket mouse in OK.