Margarita Island Kangaroo Rat

Margarita Island Kangaroo Rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Heteromyidae
Genus:	Dipodomys
Species:	D. merriami
Subspecies:	D. m. margaritae
Trinomial name
Dipodomys merriami margaritae Merriam, 1907

The Margarita Island Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys merriami margaritae) is a subspecies of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.^[2] It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only on Santa Margarita Island off the west cost of Baja California Sur. The natural habitat of the species is hot deserts. It is threatened by predation by feral cats and dogs.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I., Lacher, T., Vázquez, E. & Arroyo-Cabrales, J. (2008). Dipodomys margaritae. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 13 January 2009.
2. ^ Patton, James L. (16 November 2005). "Family Heteromyidae (pp. 844-858)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 846. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12700042.