The Yucatan deer mouse (Peromyscus yucatanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The species is found in Mexico and Guatemala; an example habitat is the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatan.
| Yucatan deer mouse | |
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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. yucatanicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Peromyscus yucatanicus J.A. Allen & Chapman, 1897
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References
edit- ^ de Grammont, P.C.; Cuarón, A. (2016). "Peromyscus yucatanicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T16696A22362477. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T16696A22362477.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- G.G.Musser 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.
- World Wildlife Fund. (2010). Petenes mangroves. eds. Mark McGinley, C.Michael Hogan & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
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