Family HETEROMYIDAE (POCKET MICE, KANGAROO MICE AND KANGAROO RATS) • Small, non-fossorial nocturnal rodents with external, fur-lined cheek pouches. • 10-35 cm. • Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. • From arid deserts to humid tropical forests, including grasslands and chaparral, from cold temperate zones to tropics, from sea level to 3200 m. • 5 genera, 66 species, 319 axa. • 1 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 4 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2016, Heteromyidae, pp. 170-233 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6 Lagomorphs and Rodents I, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 170, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6611160