Big-eared kangaroo rat

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Big-eared kangaroo rat
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Dipodomys
Species:
D. elephantinus
Binomial name
Dipodomys elephantinus
Grinnell, 1919 [1]

The big-eared or elephant-eared kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elephantinus) is a kangaroo rat that lives in chaparral. It is named for and distinguished by its comparatively large ears. It is now considered a subspecies of the narrow-faced kangaroo rat, [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It is endemic to California in the Gabilan Range region of San Benito and Monterey counties. [6] :2

Citations

  1. Grinnell, Joseph (1919). "Five New Five-Toed Kangaroo Rats from California". University of California Publications in Zoology. 21 (2): 43–47.
  2. Goldingay, Ross L., Kelly, Patrick A., Williams, Daniel F. (1997). "The Kangaroo Rats of California: endemism and conservation of keystone species". Pacific Conservation Biology. 3 (1): 47–60.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Alhajeri,Bader H. (2025). "Cranial variation in species and subspecies of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys, Dipodomyinae, Rodentia) according to geometric morphometrics". Integrative Zoology. 20: 108–134.
  4. "ASM Mammal Diversity Database".
  5. Wilson; Reeder. "Mammals Species of the World Third Edition". Bucknell University. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  6. 1 2 Best, Troy L. (1986). "Dipodomys elephantinus" (PDF). Mammalian Species (255): 1–4. doi:10.2307/3503832. JSTOR   3503832. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2017-08-02.