Michoacan deer mouse

The Michoacan deer mouse (Osgoodomys banderanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The only species in the genus Osgoodomys, it is found only in Mexico.

For another species referred to as Michoacan deer mouse, see Peromyscus sagax.

Michoacan deer mouse

Least Concern  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Osgoodomys
Hooper & Musser, 1964)
Species:
O. banderanus
Binomial name
Osgoodomys banderanus
(J.A. Allen, 1897)

References
  1. Baillie, J. 1996. Osgoodomys banderanus. 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.


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