Black-tailed mouse

Black-tailed mouse
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species:	P. melanurus
Binomial name
Peromyscus melanurus Osgood, 1909

The black-tailed mouse (Peromyscus melanurus) 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

1. Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E. (2019). "Peromyscus melanurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T16679A22363320. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T16679A22363320.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

• 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.