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genus Perognathus - pocket mice

mammal genus - a genus of mammals

family Heteromyidae, Heteromyidae - small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats

Perognathus flavus, silky pocket mouse - small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico

Perognathus flavescens, plains pocket mouse - small rodent of open areas of United States plains states

hispid pocket mouse, Perognathus hispidus - large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States

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The North American rodent genus Perognathus occupies the western one-half of North America stretching from Canada to central Mexico (Schmidly et al., 1993) and currently consists of nine species (Patton, 2005) split into four species groups: the fasciatus group, the flavus group, the longimembris group, and the parvus group (Osgood, 1900; Williams, 1978).

Taxonomic status and species limits of Perognathus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in the southern great plains

Identification and distribution of three species of pocket mice (genus Perognathus) in Trans-Pecos Texas.

Discrimination between small and medium-sized species of west Texas pocket mice (Perognathus, Chaetodipus) by characters of the lower dentition

Biochemical systematics of chaetodipine pocket mice, genus Perognathus. J.

Spatial and temporal distribution of the polymorphism for tail-tip albinism in the hispid pocket mouse, Chaetodipus hispidus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae)

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