Banner-tailed kangaroo rat

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Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Dipodomys
Species: D. spectabilis
Binomial name
Dipodomys spectabilis
Merriam, 1890

The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. They are found in Mexico and Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in the United States.[1]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Frey, J. & Lacher, T. (2008). Dipodomys spectabilis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  • Patton, J. L. 2005. Family Heteromyidae. pp. 844–858 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.