Brown deer mouse

Brown deer mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species:	P. megalops
Binomial name
Peromyscus megalops Merriam, 1898

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

1. 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.