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References

• "Encyclopedia Britannica Online" (On-line). Accessed October 4, 1999 at http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=40244&sctn=1.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes. 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• Davis, W., D. Schmidly. 1994. The Mammals of Texas. Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife.
• Grzimek, B. 1972. Grzimkek's Animal Life Encyclopedia II. London: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
• Grzimek, B. 1990. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Animals 3. South Orange: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co..
• Hall, E., K. Kelson. 1959. The Mammals of North America 11. New York: Ronald Press Company.
• Nowak, R. 1991. Mammals of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Original description: Allen, J.A., 1894.  Descriptions of ten new North American mammals, and remarks on others, p. 319.  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 13:317-332.
• Whitaker, Jr., J. 1980. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207
• Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. 2000. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204