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Florida mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}

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| name = Florida mouse

| fossil_range = Late Pleistocene – Recent

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Austin, J. |author2=Roach, N. |date=2019 |title=Podomys floridanus |volume=2019 |page=e.T17830A22339074 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T17830A22339074.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

|status2=G3

|status2_system=TNC

|status2_ref={{cite NatureServe |id=2.102175 |title=Podomys floridanus |access-date=10 April 2023}}

| genus = Podomys

| parent_authority = Osgood, 1909

| species = floridanus

| authority = (Chapman, 1889)

| synonyms_ref = {{Citation |url=http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-427-01-0001.pdf |author1=Jones, Cheri A. |author2=Charles Layne |date=April 23, 1993 |title=Podomys floridanus |publisher=The American Society of Mammalogists |journal=Mammalian Species |issue=427 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.2307/3504239 |jstor=3504239 }}

| synonyms = Hesperomys floridanus Chapman, 1889

Hesperomys macropus Merriam, 1890

Sitomys floridanus: Chapman, 1894

Peromyscus floridanus: Bangs, 1896

Podomys floridanus: Carleton, 1980

}}

The Florida mouse (Podomys floridanus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Podomys. True to its name, it is endemic to Florida in the United States.

Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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  • {{Citation |last=Chapman|first=Frank M.|title=Preliminary descriptions of two apparently new species of the genus Hesperomys from Florida |year=1889|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|volume=2|hdl=2246/1701}}
  • {{Citation |url=http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Podomys_floridanus.pdf |year=2001 |title=Field Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida: Florida Mouse |publisher=Florida Natural Areas Inventory |access-date=January 30, 2010 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727070742/http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Podomys_floridanus.pdf |url-status=dead }}
  • {{Citation |author1=Hafner, David J. |author2=Gordon L. Kirkland |year=1998 |title=North American rodents: status survey and conservation action plan |publisher=IUCN |isbn=2-8317-0463-4}}
  • {{Citation |url=http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=284 |title=North American Mammals: Florida Mouse |publisher=Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History |access-date=January 30, 2010 }}
  • {{Citation |author=Pergams, O. |author2=NatureServe |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title=Podomys floridanus. |work=2009.2 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |access-date=January 30, 2010 |url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/17830/0 }}
  • {{Citation |author1=Whitaker, John O. Jr. |author2=William J. Hamilton Jr. |year=1998 |title=Mammals of the Eastern United States |edition=3rd |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=0-8014-3475-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/mammalsofeastern00whit }}

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Category:Mammals described in 1889

Category:Endemic fauna of Florida

Category:Endemic rodents of the United States

Category:Neotominae

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Taxa named by Frank Chapman (ornithologist)