Chihuahuan mouse

Chihuahuan mouse
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species:	P. polius
Binomial name
Peromyscus polius Osgood, 1904

The Chihuahuan mouse (Peromyscus polius) 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 found only in Mexico.

References

1. Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J. (2020). "Peromyscus polius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T16686A22364219. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T16686A22364219.en . Retrieved 17 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.