Chaetodipus penicillatus (Woodhouse 1852)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 844-858 : 855

Chaetodipus penicillatus (Woodhouse 1852)

[Perognathus] penicillatus Woodhouse 1852 , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 200.

Type Locality: USA, San Francisco Mountains, New Mexico (fixed to Arizona, Yuma Co., 1 mi [1.6 km] SW Parker by Hoffmeister and Lee, 1967).

Vernacular Names: Desert Pocket Mouse.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Chaetodipus penicillatus subsp. penicillatus Woodhouse 1852

Subspecies Chaetodipus penicillatus subsp. angustirostris Osgood 1900

Subspecies Chaetodipus penicillatus subsp. pricei J. A. Allen 1894

Subspecies Chaetodipus penicillatus subsp. seri Nelson 1912

Subspecies Chaetodipus penicillatus subsp. sobrinus Goldman 1939

Subspecies Chaetodipus penicillatus subsp. stephensi Merriam 1894

Distribution: SE California and S Nevada to S Arizona and SW New Mexico ( USA) to NE Baja California and Sonora ( Mexico).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Hoffmeister and Lee (1967). Subspecies reviewed by Williams et al. (1993). Excludes Chihuahuan Desert subspecies atrodorsalis and eremicus , now regarded as a separate species, C. eremicus (see account above and Lee et al., 1996).