Slevins's Mouse

Slevins's 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:	incertae sedis
Species:	P. slevini
Binomial name
Peromyscus slevini Mailliard, 1924

Slevins's Mouse (Peromyscus slevini) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.^[2] It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from Santa Catalina Island off the east coast of Baja California Sur. The species is threatened by competition with the introduced rodent P. fraterculus.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Peromyscus slevini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/16690. Retrieved 20 April 2011. 
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. 1077. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000485.