Mesquite mouse
Species of rodent
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Neotominae |
Genus: | Peromyscus |
Species: | P. merriami |
Binomial name | |
Peromyscus merriami Mearns, 1896 |
The mesquite mouse (Peromyscus merriami) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Mexico and in Arizona in the United States.[1]
References
- ^ a b Linzey, A.V.; Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Peromyscus merriami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2010.old-form url
- 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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Extant species of subfamily Neotominae
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
- Order: Rodentia
- Family: Cricetidae
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Scotinomys (Brown mice) |
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Neotoma (Pack rats) |
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Xenomys |
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Hodomys |
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Nelsonia (Diminutive woodrats) |
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Ochrotomys |
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Peromyscus (Deer mice) |
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Reithrodontomys (New World harvest mice) |
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Onychomys (Grasshopper mice) |
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Neotomodon |
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Podomys |
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Isthmomys (Isthmus rats) |
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Megadontomys (Giant deer mice) |
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Habromys (Deer mice) |
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Osgoodomys |
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