Plateau mouse

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Plateau mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species group: P. melanophrys
Species: P. melanophrys
Binomial name
Peromyscus melanophrys
(Coues, 1874)

The plateau mouse (Peromyscus melanophrys) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Peromyscus melanophrys. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.
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