#0469 · 🦊 mammals
Merriam's Kangaroo Rat
🇳🇱 Merrians Kangoeroegoffer ·Dipodomys merriami
📍 Rams Hill 
📍 boyd deep canyon
📍 San Diego County, US-CA, US
📍 Borrego Springs, CA 92004, USA
📍 San Diego County, CA, USA
📍 Mina, N.L., México
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Николай Усик · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Marshal Hedin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Marshal Hedin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Connor Long · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Rams Hill :© W. Terry Hunefeld · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. boyd deep canyon:© Steven Kurniawidjaja · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. San Diego County, US-CA, US:© W. Terry Hunefeld · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Borrego Springs, CA 92004, USA:© Bridget Spencer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. San Diego County, CA, USA:© Caleb Villar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Mina, N.L., México:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Merriam's kangaroo rat ( Dipodomys merriami ) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. The species name commemorates Clinton Hart Merriam.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,085 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Edgar Alexander Mearns in 1890 (136 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Merriam's Kangaroo Rat
- Nederlands
- Merrians Kangoeroegoffer
- scientific name
- Dipodomys merriami
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Heteromyidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,085
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1890 by Edgar Alexander Mearns
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 44126, Wikidata Q304884, GBIF 2439521, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.