Arizona Pocket Mouse

Taxobox
name = Arizona Pocket Mouse
status = LR/nt
status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Heteromyidae
genus = "Perognathus"
species = "P. amplus"
binomial = "Perognathus amplus"
binomial_authority = Osgood, 1900

The Arizona Pocket Mouse ("Perognathus amplus") is a rodent native to the Sonoran desert. It is a small mouse with a thinly-furred tail that is smooth from base to tip (i.e. it has no tuft). In color it ranges from tan to orange. It is a nocturnal, burrowing animal. It eats seeds, which it carries back to its burrow in its cheek pouches.

External links

[http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_heteromyidae.php Heteromyidae: Kangaroo Rats & Pocket Mice] from the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum