Dalquest's pocket mouse
Species of rodent
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Dalquest's pocket mouse (Chaetodipus dalquesti) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae,[2] although it is now generally treated as a subspecies of Chaetodipus ammophilus.[1][3] 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.[4]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Heteromyidae |
| Genus: | Chaetodipus |
| Species: | C. dalquesti |
| Binomial name | |
| Chaetodipus dalquesti (Roth, 1976) | |
