San Esteban Island Mouse

San Esteban Island Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species group: P. boylii
Species: P. stephani
Binomial name
Peromyscus stephani
Townsend, 1912

The San Esteban Island Mouse (Peromyscus stephani) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from San Esteban Island in the northern Gulf of California.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. & Castro-Arellano, I. (2008). "Peromyscus stephani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/16692. Retrieved 05 March 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. 1078. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000487.