Texas Mouse

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Texas Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Peromyscus Species group: P. truei Species: P. attwateri
Binomial name
Peromyscus attwateri J.A. Allen, 1895

The Texas Mouse (Peromyscus attwateri) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in the United States.

[edit] References

• 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.
• Rodent Specialist Group 1996. Peromyscus attwateri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.