HETEROMYIDAE
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The Heteromyidae is a good-sized (about six genera and sixty species in
total) family of rodents
(Suborder
Castorimorpha) divided into the subfamilies Dipodomyinae (kangaroo rats &
mice;
genera Dipodomys
and Microdipodops, western
Canada, central and western U.S., and Mexico),
Heteromyinae
(spiny pocket
mice; genera Heteromys
and Liomys, southern
Texas, Mexico,
Central
America, and northwestern South America), and Perognathinae
(pocket mice; genera
Chaetodipus
and Perognathus, western Canada, central and western U.S., and northern
and
central Mexico).
Present
on many nearshore islands along both coasts of Baja California; present
on
Trinidad, Tobago
and Margarita
off the northern coast of South America.
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