Nelson's Giant Deer Mouse

Nelson's Giant Deer Mouse
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Megadontomys
Species:	M. nelsoni
Binomial name
Megadontomys nelsoni (Merriam, 1898)

Nelson's Giant Deer Mouse (Megadontomys nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.

References

1. ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I., Lacher, T. & Vázquez, E., Arroyo-Cabrales, J. & de Grammont, P.C. (2008). Megadontomys nelsoni. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 Jule 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of endangered.

• 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.