Dickey's Deer Mouse

Dickey's Deer Mouse
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species group:	P. eremicus
Species:	P. dickeyi
Binomial name
Peromyscus dickeyi Burt, 1932

Dickey's Deer Mouse (Peromyscus dickeyi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.^[2] It is endemic Mexico, where it is found only on Tortuga Island off the east coast of Baja California Sur.

References

1. ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I., Lacher, T. & Vázquez, E. (2008). Peromyscus dickeyi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2 September 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of critically endangered.
2. ^ Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1065. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000445.