- Mesquite Mouse
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Mesquite Mouse Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Peromyscus Species group: P. eremicus Species: P. merriami Binomial name Peromyscus merriami
Mearns, 1896The Mesquite Mouse (Peromyscus merriami) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and in Arizona in the United States.[1]
References
- ^ a b Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Peromyscus merriami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/16680. Retrieved 05 February 2010.
- 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.
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Neotominae
- Fauna of the Sonoran Desert
- Fauna of Mexico
- Cricetidae stubs
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