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Chaetodipus dalquesti

Dalquest's pocket mouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Chaetodipus
Species: C. dalquesti
Binomial name
Chaetodipus dalquesti
(Roth, 1976)

Dalquest's pocket mouse (Chaetodipus dalquesti) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae, sometimes viewed as a subspecies of Chaetodipus ammophilus. It is endemic to Mexico. The pocket mouse is named after Walter W. Dalquest (1917-2000), an American zoologist associated with the American Museum of Natural History and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.



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