Common Name
Narrow-faced Kangaroo Rat
Order
Rodentia
Family
Heteromyidae
Species Name
Dipodomys venustus
States
California
Distribution
Outer coast ranges from southern San Francisco Bay to Estero Bay and Gabilan Range of San Benito and Monterey counties, west central California (USA).
Notes
Revised by Grinnell (1922), who considered elephantinus a separate species. Best et al. (1996) concluded that elephantinus was only a subspecies of venustus, based on both molecular and morphological comparisons; also see Stock (1974), Schnell et al. (19