Black-tailed mouse

Black-tailed mouse
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species group:	P. megalops
Species:	P. melanurus
Binomial name
Peromyscus melanurus Osgood, 1909

The black-tailed mouse (Peromyscus melanurus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to Mexico.

References

• Baillie, J. (1996). Peromyscus melanurus. 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.