Dalquest's pocket mouse

Dalquest's pocket mouse (Chaetodipus dalquesti) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae,^[2] although it is now generally treated as a subspecies of Chaetodipus ammophilus.^[1][3] It is endemic to Mexico. The pocket mouse is named after Walter W. Dalquest (1917-2000), an American zoologist associated with the American Museum of Natural History and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.^[4]

Dalquest's pocket mouse
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Heteromyidae
Genus:	Chaetodipus
Species:	C. dalquesti
Binomial name
Chaetodipus dalquesti (Roth, 1976)