Dipodomys compactus True 1889

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 : 845

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11342675

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scientific name

Dipodomys compactus True 1889
status

 

Dipodomys compactus True 1889 View in CoL

Dipodomys compactus True 1889 View in CoL , Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus ., 11: 160.

Type Locality: USA, Texas, Cameron Co., Padre Isl.

Vernacular Names: Gulf Coast Kangaroo Rat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Dipodomys compactus subsp. compactus True 1889

Subspecies Dipodomys compactus subsp. sennetti J. A. Allen 1891

Distribution: Mainland, Padre and Mustang Isls of S Texas ( USA) and barrier islands of N Tamaulipas ( Mexico).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Considered distinct from ordii by Johnson and Selander (1971), Schmidly and Hendricks (1976), and Baumgardner and Schmidly (1981), who also documented sympatry between compactus and ordii . Hall (1981:565) provisionally retained compactus as a subspecies of ordii . Reviewed by Baumgardner (1991, Mammalian Species No. 369). Williams et al. (1993) regarded sennetti J. A. Allen as a valid subspecies.

Baumgardner, G. D., and D. J. Schmidly. 1981. Systematics of the southern races of two species of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys compactus and D. ordii). Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 73: 1 - 27.

Baumgardner, G. D. 1991. Dipodomys compactus. Mammalian Species, 369: 1 - 4.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Johnson, W. E., and R. K. Selander. 1971. Protein variation and systematics in kangaroo rats (genus Dipodomys). Systematic Zoology, 20: 377 - 405.

Schmidly, D. J., and F. S. Hendricks. 1976. Systematics of the southern races of Ord's kangaroo rat, Dipodomys ordii. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science, 75: 225 - 237.

Williams, D. F., H. H. Genoways, and J. K. Braun. 1993. Taxonomy. Pp. 38 - 196, in Biology of the Heteromyidae (H. H. Genoways and J. H. Brown, eds.). Special Publication, The American Society of Mammalogists, 10: 1 - 719.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Heteromyidae

SubFamily

Dipodomyinae

Genus

Dipodomys