Maya mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Maya mouse

| status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1

| genus = Peromyscus

| species = mayensis

| authority = Carleton & Huckaby, 1975

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The Maya mouse (Peromyscus mayensis) 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 Guatemala.

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.