Baja Pocket Mouse

Chaetodipus rudinoris

The Baja Pocket Mouse belongs to a group of pocket mice that were split from the Bailey’s Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi). Once thought to be a subspecies of the Bailey’s Pocket Mouse, the advent of genetic diagnosis, it has deemed its deserves status as its own species.. Presently science recognises six sub-species of C. rudinoris, but one of those is believed to be extinct since 1975 (due to predation by feral cats).

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