Baja pocket mouse

Baja pocket mouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Heteromyidae
Genus:Chaetodipus
Species: C. rudinoris
Binomial name
Chaetodipus rudinoris
(Elliot, 1903)

The Baja pocket mouse (Chaetodipus rudinoris) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. The species occurs in southern California, Baja California and on islands in the Gulf of California.[1]

Subspecies

The Baia pocket mouse has six recognised subspecies.[2] The Montserrat Island pocket mouse (Chaetodipus rudinoris fornicatus) became extinct in 1975 (last sighting).[1][3]

  • Chaetodipus rudinoris rudinoris
  • Chaetodipus rudinoris extimus
  • Chaetodipus rudinoris fornicatus (Monserrate Island pocket mouse)†
  • Chaetodipus rudinoris hueyi
  • Chaetodipus rudinoris knekus
  • Chaetodipus rudinoris mesidios

References

  1. 1 2 3 Linzey, A.V.; Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Chaetodipus rudinoris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  2. ↑ Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.
  3. ↑ Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T. and Cortés-Calva, P. 2002. Extirpation of Bailey's pocket mouse Chaetodipus baileyi fornicatus (Heteromyidae : Mammalia), from Isla Montserrat, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Western North American Naturalist 62: 496-497.


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