Mesquite mouse

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Mesquite mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species group: P. eremicus
Species: P. merriami
Binomial name
Peromyscus merriami
Mearns, 1896

The mesquite mouse (Peromyscus merriami) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae found in Mexico and in Arizona in the United States.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linzey, A.V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Peromyscus merriami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 05 February 2010. 
  • 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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