Plateau mouse

Plateau mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species group:	P. melanophrys
Species:	P. melanophrys
Binomial name
Peromyscus melanophrys (Coues, 1874)

The plateau mouse (Peromyscus melanophrys) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico.

References

• Baillie, J. (1996). Peromyscus melanophrys. 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.