Common Name
Silky Pocket Mouse
Order
Rodentia
Family
Heteromyidae
Species Name
Perognathus flavus
States
Arizona
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Wyoming
Distribution
Southwestern Great Plains and intermountain plateaus from South Dakota, eastern Wyoming, and southeastern Utah (USA) south to Sonora and Puebla (Mexico).
Notes
Revised by Baker (1954); subspecies listed by Hall (1981) and reviewed by Williams et al. (1993). Wilson (1973) considered merriami conspecific, but Anderson (1972) Lee and Engstrom (1991) documented species distinctness of merriami from flavus (see belo