The Northern Baja deer mouse (Peromyscus fraterculus) is a species of deer mouse native to Southern California and the Baja California peninsula as well as several islands in the Gulf of California. P. fraterculus was previously considered a subspecies of the cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus) prior to a 2000 study which identified genetic differences and suggested P. fraterculus is more closely related to Eva's desert mouse (P. eva) than to P. eremicus.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Peromyscus |
| Species: | P. fraterculus
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| Peromyscus fraterculus (Miller, 1892)
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References
edit- ^ Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. & Lacher, T (2008). "Peromyscus fraterculus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ Riddle, Brett R.; Hafner, David J.; Alexander, Lois F. (2000). "Phylogeography and systematics of the Peromyscus eremicus species group and the historical biogeography of North American warm regional deserts" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 17 (2): 145–160. Bibcode:2000MolPE..17..145R. doi:10.1006/mpev.2000.0841. PMID 11083930.
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