| Brown deer mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Peromyscus |
| Species: | P. megalops
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| Binomial name | |
| Peromyscus megalops Merriam, 1898
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The brown deer mouse or brown deermouse (Peromyscus megalops) 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 Mexico.
References
[edit]- ^ Castro-Arellano, I. & Vázquez, E. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Peromyscus megalops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T16674A115136745. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16674A22363250.en.
- Baillie, J. (1996). Peromyscus megalops. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
- 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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