Little Desert Pocket Mouse

Little Desert Pocket Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Heteromyidae
Genus:	Chaetodipus
Species:	C. arenarius
Binomial name
Chaetodipus arenarius (Merriam, 1894)

The Little Desert Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus arenarius) is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It is endemic to Mexico.

References

1. ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Chaetodipus arenarius. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 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.