Florida Mouse

Florida Mouse

Taxobox
name = Florida Mouse
fossil_range = Late Pleistocene - Recent
status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Neotominae
tribus = Peromyscini
genus = "Podomys"
genus_authority = Osgood, 1909
species = "P. floridanus"
binomial = "Podomys floridanus"
binomial_authority = (Chapman, 1889)
synonyms =

The Florida Mouse ("Podomys floridanus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus "Podomys". It is found only in the United States.

Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Hafner, D.J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/17830/all Podomys floridanus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
*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.


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