- Northwestern Deer Mouse
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Northwestern Deer Mouse Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Peromyscus Species group: P. maniculatus Species: P. keeni Binomial name Peromyscus keeni
(Rhoads, 1894)Synonyms The Northwestern Deer Mouse or Keen's Mouse (Peromyscus keeni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and in Alaska and Washington in the United States.[1] It was named after the Rev. John Henry Keen in 1894.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Peromyscus keeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/135164. Retrieved 05 February 2010.
- ^ Beolens et al, Bo (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals p.220. JHU Press. pp. 574. http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&lpg=PA220&ots=WonmyES52o&dq=rev%20john%20henry%20keen&pg=PA220#v=onepage&q=rev%20john%20henry%20keen&f=false.
- 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.
- Peromyscus keeni, Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World (Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed.)
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Neotominae
- Cricetidae stubs
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