Arizona Pocket Mouse
Perognathus amplus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The Arizona pocket mouse is a rodent native to the Sonoran Desert. It is a small mouse with a thinly furred tail that is smooth from base to tip. In color it ranges from tan to orange. It is a nocturnal, burrowing animal. It eats seeds, which it carries back to its burrow in its cheek pouches.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Heteromyidae
- Genus
- Perognathus