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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Heteromyidae

family Haemoproteidae
family Haemulidae
family Halictidae
family Haliotidae
family Haloragaceae
family Haloragidaceae
family Hamamelidaceae
family Helicidae
family Helodermatidae
family Helotiaceae
family Helvellaceae
family Hemerobiidae
family Hemerocallidaceae
family Hemiprocnidae
family Hemiramphidae
family Heteromyidae
family Hexagrammidae
family Hexanchidae
family Hippoboscidae
family Hippocastanaceae
family Hippopotamidae
family Hipposideridae
family Hirudinidae
family Hirundinidae
family Holocentridae
family Holothuridae
family Homaridae
family Hominidae
family Hostaceae
family Hyacinthaceae

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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