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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]
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A pilot project with Revive & Restore and US Fish and Wildlife is now scaling up a national biobanking project to preserve the cell lines of endangered species like the New Mexico meadow jumping ...
In addition to hosting rare bird species, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is also home to the southernmost known population of the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse along the Rio Grande river. This mouse is a distinctive, genetically unique subspecies found in certain regions of New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Colorado.
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.
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.
Jun. 14—Errant cattle roaming the Valles Caldera National Preserve have spurred a lawsuit from three conservation groups that contend federal land and wildlife managers have failed to prevent ...
Zapus is a genus of North American jumping mouse.It is the only genus whose members have the dental formula 1.0.1.3 1.0.0.3. Zapus are the only extant mammals aside from the Aye-aye with a total of 18 teeth.