Big deer mouse

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Big deer mouse
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species:
P. grandis
Binomial name
Peromyscus grandis
Goodwin, 1932

The big deer mouse, big deermouse, or giant deermouse (Peromyscus grandis) 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. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Roach, N.; Naylor, L. (2019). "Peromyscus grandis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T16662A22359831. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T16662A22359831.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. Musser, G. G. and Carleton, M. D. (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.