Short-nosed harvest mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Naylor, L. |author2=Roach, N. |date=2016 |title=Reithrodontomys brevirostris |volume=2016 |page=e.T19402A22385269 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T19402A22385269.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Reithrodontomys

| species = brevirostris

| authority = Goodwin, 1943

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The short-nosed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys brevirostris) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.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.

It is currently of Least Concern in endangerment status.{{Cite web |date=13 Oct 2012 |title=Reithrodontomys brevirostris - IUCN Redlist |url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19402/0 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013075819/http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19402/0 |archive-date=2012-10-13 |access-date=11 Jun 2023 |website=iucnredlist.org |language=en}}

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