The Heteromyidae consists of kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, pocket mice, and spiny pocket-mice (six genera and ca. 65 species overall). The family is restricted to the Americas: southwestern Canada, the western United States, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Most species are found in the deserts and grasslands of western North America, although the spiny pocket-mice (Heteromys) also occur in wet and dry tropical forests of the Neotropics. Heteromyids are nocturnal and solitary. They feed on seeds and other plant parts, which they carry in their fur-lined cheek pouches to their burrows.

		Ord's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ordii)
		Silky Pocket Mouse (Perognathus flavus)
		Hispid Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus)
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