Eastern Harvest Mouse

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Eastern Harvest Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Reithrodontomys Species: R. humulis
Binomial name
Reithrodontomys humulis (Audubon & Bachman, 1941)

The Eastern Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and pastureland.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Reithrodontomys humilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 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.