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pocket mouse
any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail
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Dipodomys phillipsii, desert rat, kangaroo rat
any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae
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dwarf pocket rat, kangaroo mouse
small silky-haired pouched rodent; similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats
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gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat
burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
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Perognathus flavus, silky pocket mouse
small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
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Perognathus flavescens, plains pocket mouse
small rodent of open areas of United States plains states
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Perognathus hispidus, hispid pocket mouse
large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States
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Liomys irroratus, Mexican pocket mouse
large pocket mouse of Mexico
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Dipodomys ordi, Ord kangaroo rat
most widely distributed kangaroo rat: plains and mountain areas of central and western United States
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Geomys bursarius, plains pocket gopher
gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America
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Geomys pinetis, southeastern pocket gopher
gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida
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Thomomys bottae, valley pocket gopher
of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States
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Thomomys talpoides, northern pocket gopher
greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States
