Nevada records for Merriam’s kangaroo rat are anchored by Gold Butte National Monument, with 44, and Death Valley National Park, with 8. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
These sites place the Nevada record pattern firmly in the state’s southern desert country. The protected lands also span springs, canyons, and open basin terrain. Reporting peaks twice, in May and September, with few records in midsummer or winter. It tracks observer records and shouldn’t be read as a population count.
The file combines 82 research-grade iNaturalist records and 800 GBIF records; with the overlap between them removed, that’s 812 distinct records, which measure documented encounters, not Nevada’s population size. It’s native to Nevada. Nevada doesn’t specifically list it under the state’s conservation framework, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
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