Common Name
Long-tailed Pocket Mouse
Order
Rodentia
Family
Heteromyidae
Species Name
Chaetodipus formosus
States
Arizona
California
Nevada
Utah
Distribution
Western Utah, Nevada, eastern California, and northwest Arizona (USA), and eastern coast of Baja California to BahÃa Concepcion (Baja California Sur, Mexico).
Notes
Reviewed by Huey (1964). Included in Perognathus by Hall (1981:542) and earlier workers, but allocated to Chaetodipus by Patton et al. (1981) and Hafner and Hafner (1983). Subspecies reviewed by Williams et al. (1993). Inactive in cold weather and for