California Pocket Mouse

California 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. californicus
Binomial name
Chaetodipus californicus (Merriam, 1889)

The California Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus californicus) is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It is found in Baja California in Mexico and in California in the United States.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Chaetodipus californicus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 17 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.