Biology:Narrow-faced kangaroo rat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Narrow-faced kangaroo rat
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Dipodomys
Species:
D. venustus
Binomial name
Dipodomys venustus
(Merriam, 1904)

The narrow-faced kangaroo rat (Dipodomys venustus) is one of almost 20 species of kangaroo rats, a rodent in the family Heteromyidae.[2] It is endemic to California in the United States.[1]

Like all other heteromyids, the dental formula of Dipodomys venustus is 1.0.1.31.0.1.3 × 2 = 20.[3]

Narrow-faced kangaroo rats lives within chaparral, mixed chaparral, and on sandy soils with oak or pine. They are distributed along West-central California in the coastal mountains.[4] They have been divided into three subspecies:

  • Dipodomys venustus venustus (Santa Cruz kangaroo rat),[5][6] which inhabit the Santa Cruz Mountains and Mount Hamilton range, the latter a central sub-range of the Diablo Range
  • Dipodomys venustus elephantinus (Elephant-eared or big-eared kangaroo rat),[5][6] which inhabit the Gabilan Range and southern Diablo Range
  • Dipodomys venustus sanctiluciae (Santa Lucia kangaroo rat); which inhabit the Santa Lucia Range[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cassola, F. (2016). "Dipodomys venustus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T42605A22227166.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/42605/22227166. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ Patton, J.L. (2005). "Family Heteromyidae". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 849. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12700126. 
  3. ↑ Myers, Phil (2001). "Heteromyidae: kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and relatives". http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Heteromyidae/. 
  4. ↑ Best, Troy L. "Dipodomys Venustus." Mammalian Species, no. 403, 1992, pp. 1–4. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3504315.Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Goldingay, Ross L., Kelly, Patrick A., Williams, Daniel F. (1997). "The Kangaroo Rats of California: endemism and conservation of keystone species". Pacific Conservation Biology 3 (1): 47–60. doi:10.1071/PC970047. Bibcode: 1997PacSB...3...47L. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Alhajeri,Bader H. (2025). "Cranial variation in species and subspecies of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys, Dipodomyinae, Rodentia) according to geometric morphometrics". Integrative Zoology 20 (1): 108–134. doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12824. PMID 38601992. 

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