Brown deer mouse
{{Short description|Species of rodent}}
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| name = Brown deer mouse
| image = Peromyscus_megalops.jpg
| status = LC| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Peromyscus
| species = megalops
| authority = Merriam, 1898
| synonyms =
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The brown deer mouse or brown deermouse (Peromyscus megalops) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". It is endemic to Mexico.
References
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- Baillie, J. (1996). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/16674/all Peromyscus megalops]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627094911/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 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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Category:Mammals described in 1898
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam
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