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The agile kangaroo rat (Dipodomys agilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. [2] It is endemic to southern California in the United States.. Relatively little information has been published on the natural history, life history, ecology, or behavior of the agile kangaroo rat.
Dipodomyinae is a subfamily of heteromyid rodents, the kangaroo rats and mice. Dipodomyines, as implied by both their common and scientific names, are bipedal ; they also jump exceptionally well. Kangaroo rats and mice are native to desert and semidesert ecosystems of western North America from southern Canada to central Mexico .
Kangaroo rats, small mostly nocturnal rodents of genus Dipodomys, are native to arid areas of western North America.The common name derives from their bipedal form. They hop in a manner similar to the much larger kangaroo, but developed this mode of locomotion independently, like several other clades of rodents (e.g., dipodids and hopping mice).
The giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) is endemic to California. Order: Rodentia Family: Heteromyidae. Twenty-six species of pocket mice and kangaroo rats occur in California. Subfamily Dipodomyinae (kangaroo rats and mice) Pacific (or agile) kangaroo rat, Dipodomys agilis (endemic) California kangaroo rat, Dipodomys californicus
The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely related to chipmunks and gophers than kangaroos or rats, had not been spotted in the area since the 1940s. The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely ...
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.
Extinct in the wild: ... Agile kangaroo rat, D. agilis [n 3] LC; ... They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless ...
Aurimys is an extinct genus of kangaroo rats from the Early Miocene of North America. They are known from a single specimen from a deposit in Oregon consisting of a nearly complete skull and jawbone, a partial hindfoot and a bone from the tail. It is both the earliest and largest known member of its subfamily, with the skull measuring ...