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Zapodidae Coues 1875
Description
Family ZAPODIDAE
(JUMPING MICE)
• Small rodents with yellowish or reddish fur, long legs, large hindfeet, tails much longer than head-body lengths, and grooved upper incisors.
• 19-26 cm.
• Holarctic Region.
• Open and brushy fields and forests.
• 3 genera, 5 species, 33 axa.
• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Zapodidae, pp. 50-61 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6609503
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