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Definition of 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 Heteromyidae
Literary usage of 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)
"heteromyidae.—The members of this family are also American, but are not confined
to the northern-central regions of that continent, for the genus ..."
2. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"Biology of the heteromyidae. American Society of Mammalogists, Special Publication
No. 10: 618-651. Brown, JH; Heske, EJ 1990. Control of a desert-grassland ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"... in fact, rather remote relatives of any modern type, and combine characters
of Sciuridae, Geomyidae, and heteromyidae with others peculiar to themselves ..."
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