Big-eared kangaroo rat
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| Big-eared kangaroo rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Heteromyidae |
| Genus: | Dipodomys |
| Species: | D. elephantinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dipodomys elephantinus | |
The big-eared or elephant-eared kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elephantinus) is a kangaroo rat that lives in chaparral. It is named for and distinguished by its comparatively large ears. It is now considered a subspecies of the narrow-faced kangaroo rat,[2][3][4][5][6] It is endemic to California in the Gabilan Range region of San Benito and Monterey counties.[6]: 2
Citations
[edit]- ^ Grinnell, Joseph (1919). "Five New Five-Toed Kangaroo Rats from California". University of California Publications in Zoology. 21 (2): 43–47.
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Alhajeri,Bader H. (2025). "Cranial variation in species and subspecies of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys, Dipodomyinae, Rodentia) according to geometric morphometrics". Integrative Zoology. 20: 108–134.
- ^ "ASM Mammal Diversity Database".
- ^ Wilson; Reeder. "Mammals Species of the World Third Edition". Bucknell University. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ a b Best, Troy L. (1986). "Dipodomys elephantinus" (PDF). Mammalian Species (255): 1–4. doi:10.2307/3503832. JSTOR 3503832. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
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