pocket mouse

1. Any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail (synset 102351440)
   is a type of: pocket rat - any of various rodents with cheek pouches
   subtypes:

   • perognathus flavus, silky pocket mouse - small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
   • perognathus flavescens, plains pocket mouse - small rodent of open areas of United States plains states
   • hispid pocket mouse, perognathus hispidus - large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States
   • liomys irroratus, mexican pocket mouse - large pocket mouse of Mexico
   belongs to: family heteromyidae, heteromyidae - small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats

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