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Heteromyidae
Sign in to saveHeteromyidae is a family of rodents consisting of kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, pocket mice and spiny pocket mice. Most heteromyids live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, though species within the genus Heteromys are also found in forests and their range extends as far south as northern South America. They feed mostly on seeds and other plant parts, which they carry in their fur-lined cheek pouches to their burrows.
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Heteromyidae is a family of mammals within the order Rodentia. It belongs to the class Mammalia, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The taxon is classified at the family rank.
Records for this family are held by institutions including CM and USNM. These records are associated with the United States. The family has 330,094 occurrences and 4,670 records, with one media item available.
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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilyHeteromyidae
亚科 更格卢鼠亚科（英语：Dipodomyinae） Dipodomyinae 异鼠亚科 Heteromyinae 小囊鼠亚科 Perognathinae 異鼠科（学名：Heteromyidae）又称更格盧鼠科，哺乳綱囓齒目的一科，而更格盧鼠科轄下的動物則有更格盧鼠屬（海島更格盧鼠）、剛毛囊鼠屬（剛毛囊鼠）、小囊鼠屬（白耳小囊鼠）、棘小囊鼠屬（彩棘小囊鼠）、林棘鼠屬（林棘鼠）等之數種哺乳動物。 取自“https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=異鼠科&oldid=37955699” 分类：更格盧鼠科 隐藏分类：本地相关图片与维基数据相同
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4,670
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Heteromyidae
- Collections
- CM, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Castorimorpha
- Image
- Dipodomys nitratoides.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution
- Behaviour
- Ecology
- Taxonomy
- References
Heteromyidae is a family of rodents consisting of kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, pocket mice and spiny pocket mice. Most heteromyids live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, though species within the genus Heteromys are also found in forests and their range extends as far south as northern South America. They feed mostly on seeds and other plant parts, which they carry in their fur-lined cheek pouches to their burrows.
Although they are very different in physical appearance, the closest relatives of the heteromyids are pocket gophers in the family Geomyidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heteromyidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.