Puna Mouse

Puna Mouse
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Punomys
Species:	P. lemminus
Binomial name
*Punomys lemminus* Osgood, 1943

The Puna Mouse (Punomys lemminus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southern Peru, where it is found in puna habitat at elevations of 4400 to 4900 m in the Cordillera Occidental.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Patterson, B. & Zeballos, H. (2008). "Punomys lemminus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/18880. Retrieved 14 June 2009.

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.