Plains pocket mouse
| Plains pocket mouse | |
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| Perognathus flavescens apache | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Heteromyidae |
| Genus: | Perognathus |
| Species: | P. flavescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Perognathus flavescens Merriam, 1889
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The plains pocket mouse (Perognathus flavescens) is a heteromyid rodent of North America.[2][3] It ranges from southwestern Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota to northern Texas east of the Rockies, and from northern Utah and Colorado to northern Chihuahua west of the Rockies.[1]
It has soft silky fur and grows to be 5 inches (13 cm) long, although nearly half of that is the tail.
They often live directly underneath
pigeon grass, a few other grasses, and wild buckwheat
have been found in their burrows.
Their breeding season is mainly July to August and the females tend to have 4 embryos at a time. Other information about this animal is scarce.
Media related to Perognathus flavescens at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ^ a b Linzey, A.V.; Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Perognathus flavescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
- ^ Monk, R. Richard, and J. Knox Jones. "Perognathus flavescens." Mammalian Species 525 (1996): 1-4.
- OCLC 62265494.