Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse

Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Megadontomys
Species:	M. cryophilus
Binomial name
Megadontomys cryophilus (Musser, 1964)

The Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse (Megadontomys cryophilus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.

References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Megadontomys cryophilus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.