Spiny Pocket Mouse

Spiny 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. spinatus
Binomial name
Chaetodipus spinatus (Merriam, 1889)

The Spiny Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus spinatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Baja California in Mexico and in Arizona, California and Nevada 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 spinatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 March 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.