Big-eared kangaroo rat

Big-eared kangaroo rat
Scientific classification
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. Bibcode:1997PacSB...3...47L. doi:10.1071/PC970047.
3. Alhajeri,Bader H. (2025). "Cranial variation in species and subspecies of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys, Dipodomyinae, Rodentia) according to geometric morphometrics". Integrative Zoology. 20 (1): 108–134. doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12824. PMID   38601992.
4. "ASM Mammal Diversity Database".
5. Wilson; Reeder. "Mammals Species of the World Third Edition". Bucknell University. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
6. 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.