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Definition of Family Heteromyidae
1. Noun. Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Member holonyms: Pocket Mouse, Genus Perognathus, Perognathus, Genus Liomys, Liomys, Dipodomys, Genus Dipodomys, Genus Microdipodops, Microdipodops
Group relationships: Sciuromorpha, Suborder Sciuromorpha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Heteromyidae
Literary usage of Family Heteromyidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... (hence the name of the latter) and to some other members of the American family
Heteromyidae ..."
2. California Mammals by Frank Stephens (1906)
"family Heteromyidae. Pocket-Rats and Pocket-Mice. Cheek pockets large and opening
externally, similar to those of ..."
3. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"... granivorous, pocket mice and kangaroo rats (family Heteromyidae) represent a
large component of the small mammal fauna (Findley 1987). ..."
4. Description of a New Species of Sea Snake from the Philippine Islands: With by John Van Denburgh, Joseph Cheesman Thompson (1908)
"... from the Tahoe region north to Mount Shasta, thence west through the Trinity
Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.). Family HETEROMYIDAE Perognathus ..."
5. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"The family Heteromyidae is a New World family of nocturnal, granivorous rodents.
The vast majority of species representing four of six extant ..."
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