Chihuahuan mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. |author2=Lacher, T. |author3=Vázquez, E. |author4=Arroyo-Cabrales, J. |date=2020 |title=Peromyscus polius |volume=2020 |page=e.T16686A22364219 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T16686A22364219.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Peromyscus

| species = polius

| authority = Osgood, 1904

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The Chihuahuan mouse (Peromyscus polius) 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 found only in Mexico.

References

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  • 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:Peromyscus

Category:Endemic mammals of Mexico

Mouse, Chihuahuan

Category:Natural history of Chihuahua (state)

Category:Mammals described in 1904

Category:Fauna of the Sierra Madre Occidental

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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