Yucatan deer mouse

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| name = Yucatan deer mouse

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| genus = Peromyscus

| species = yucatanicus

| authority = J.A. Allen & Chapman, 1897

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The Yucatan deer mouse or Yucatan deermouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus) 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". The species is found in Mexico and Guatemala; an example habitat is the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatan.

References

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  • G.G.Musser 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.
  • World Wildlife Fund. (2010). [http://www.eoearth.org/article/Petenes_mangroves?topic=49597 Petenes mangroves]. eds. Mark McGinley, C.Michael Hogan & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC

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Yucatan deer mouse

Yucatan deer mouse

Category:Rodents of Mexico

Category:Fauna of the Yucatán Peninsula

Category:Mammals described in 1897

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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