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The Preble's meadow jumping mouse has been documented in eleven Wyoming and Colorado counties, as far north as Wyoming's Converse to Colorado's El Paso in the south. In Colorado, known habitat areas include the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge , South Boulder Creek and the St. Vrain Valley.
The meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius) is the most widely distributed mouse in the family Zapodidae.Its range extends from the Atlantic coast in the east to the Great Plains west, and from the arctic tree lines in Canada and Alaska to the north, and Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, and New Mexico to the south. [2]
Zapodidae, the jumping mice, is a family of mouse-like rodents in North America and China. Although mouse-like in general appearance, these rodents are distinguished by their elongated hind limbs, and, typically, by the presence of four pairs of cheek-teeth in each jaw.
On a hilltop about 95 miles west of Chicago grow plant species that have been there for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The soil is sandy, so when the surrounding lowlands were used for ...
Meadow jumping mouse; P. Pacific jumping mouse; Preble's meadow jumping mouse; W. Western jumping mouse This page was last edited on 2 October 2021, at 19:45 (UTC) ...
Formerly, Dipodoidea contained only a single large family, Dipodidae, which contained jerboas, jumping mice, and birch mice as subfamilies. However, phylogenetic evidence found all three to be distinct families from one another, and thus they were split into three different families within Dipodoidea.
Western woodland jumping mouse, N. abietorum [8] Meadow jumping mouse, Z. hudsonius [n 3] LC (Preble's meadow jumping mouse, Z. h. preblei: T) Southern meadow jumping mouse, Z. luteus [8] Western jumping mouse, Z. princeps [n 3] LC. Oregon jumping mouse, Z. oregonus [8] South Pacific jumping mouse, Z. pacificus [8] North-western jumping mouse ...
Northern meadow jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius [n 4] LC (Preble's meadow jumping mouse, Z. h. preblei: T) and: [n 3] Southern meadow jumping mouse, Zapus luteus [9] South-western jumping mouse, Zapus princeps [n 4] LC and: [n 3] Oregon jumping mouse, Zapus oregonus [9] South Pacific jumping mouse, Zapus pacificus [9] North-western jumping mouse ...