Florida mouse

Florida mouse Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Recent
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Vulnerable  (NatureServe) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Podomys Osgood, 1909
Species:	P. floridanus
Binomial name
Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)
Synonyms [3]
Hesperomys floridanusChapman, 1889 Hesperomys macropus Merriam, 1890 Sitomys floridanus: Chapman, 1894 Peromyscus floridanus: Bangs, 1896 Podomys floridanus: Carleton, 1980

The Florida mouse (Podomys floridanus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Podomys. True to its name, it is endemic to Florida in the United States.

Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

In Florida, Florida mice may be eaten by some growth stage of invasive snakes such as Burmese pythons, reticulated pythons, Central African rock pythons, Southern African rock pythons, boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, Bolivian anacondas, dark-spotted anacondas, and green anacondas. ^[4]

References

1. Austin, J.; Roach, N. (2019). "Podomys floridanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T17830A22339074. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T17830A22339074.en . Retrieved November 17, 2021.
2. NatureServe. "Podomys floridanus". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
3. Jones, Cheri A.; Charles Layne (April 23, 1993), "Podomys floridanus" (PDF), Mammalian Species (427), The American Society of Mammalogists: 1–5, doi:10.2307/3504239, JSTOR   3504239
4. Final Environmental Assessment For The Large Constrictor Snakes Listed As Injurious Wildlife under the Lacey Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. January 2012.

Further reading

• Chapman, Frank M. (1889), "Preliminary descriptions of two apparently new species of the genus Hesperomys from Florida", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2, hdl:2246/1701
• Field Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida: Florida Mouse (PDF), Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2001, archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2011, retrieved January 30, 2010
• Hafner, David J.; Gordon L. Kirkland (1998), North American rodents: status survey and conservation action plan, IUCN, ISBN   2-8317-0463-4
• North American Mammals: Florida Mouse, Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History, archived from the original on April 25, 2009, retrieved January 30, 2010
• Pergams, O. & NatureServe (2008), "Podomys floridanus.", 2009.2 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, retrieved January 30, 2010
• Whitaker, John O. Jr.; William J. Hamilton Jr. (1998), Mammals of the Eastern United States (3rd ed.), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ISBN   0-8014-3475-0