Common Name
Ord's Kangaroo Rat
Order
Rodentia
Family
Heteromyidae
Species Name
Dipodomys ordii
States
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Mexico
Nevada
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Distribution
Southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta (Canada) and southeastern Washington south through Great Plains and intermontane basins of western USA, to Mexican Plateau as far south as Hidalgo (Mexico).
Notes
Revised by Setzer (1949) and reviewed by Garrison and Best (1990, Mammalian Species No. 353); subspecies follow Williams et al. (1993). Does not include compactus, see Schmidly and Hendricks (1976), Baumgardner and Schmidly (1981), and comment under that
Oregon
Lightest colored kangaroo rat in Oregon