Arizona pocket mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Arizona pocket mouse

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. |author2=Castro-Arellano, I. |author3=Lacher, T. |date=2016 |title=Perognathus amplus |volume=2016 |page=e.T16633A22224910 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T16633A22224910.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Perognathus

| species = amplus

| authority = Osgood, 1900

}}

The Arizona pocket mouse (Perognathus amplus) is a rodent native to the Sonoran Desert. It is a small mouse with a thinly furred tail that is smooth from base to tip (i.e. it has no tuft). In color it ranges from tan to orange. It is a nocturnal, burrowing animal. It eats seeds, which it carries back to its burrow in its cheek pouches.