Canyon mouse

Taxobox
name = "Peromyscus crinitus"
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
superfamilia = Muroidea
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Neotominae
genus = "Peromyscus"
species_group = "P. crinitus"
species = "P. crinitus"
binomial = "Peromyscus crinitus"
binomial_authority = (Merriam, 1891)

"Peromyscus crinitus", commonly known as the canyon mouse, is a gray-brown mouse found in many states of the Western United States and northern Mexico. Its preferred habitat is arid, rocky desert. It is the only species in the "Peromyscus crinitus" species group.

Canyon mice eat seeds, green vegetation, and insects. They breed in the spring and summer. Female canyon mice can produce multiple litters of between two and five young every year. Canyon mice are nocturnal and are active through the year. They usually nest among or below rocks in underground burrows.

References

*Biotics Database. 2005. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, NatureServe, and the network of Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centers.
*Burt, W. H. and R. P. Grossenheider. "A field guide to the mammals". Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1980.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.