Canyon mouse
| Canyon mouse | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Peromyscus |
| Species: | P. crinitus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Peromyscus crinitus (Merriam, 1891)
| |
The canyon mouse (Peromyscus crinitus) is a gray-brown mouse found in many states of the western United States and northern Mexico. Its preferred habitat is arid, rocky desert. It is the only species in the Peromyscus crinitus species group.
Canyon mice eat seeds, green vegetation, and insects. They breed in the spring and summer. Females can produce multiple litters of between two and five young every year. Males do not mate with more than one female, and the homes ranges of females and males overlap.[2] Canyon mice are nocturnal and are active through the year. They usually nest among or below rocks in burrows.
References[]
- ^ Linzey, A.V.; Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. & Lacher, T. (2008). "Peromyscus crinitus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
- ^ Kalcounis-Rüppell, Matina; Ribble, David O. "A Phylogenetic alAnalysis of the Breeding Systems of Neotonine-Peromyscine Rodents". In Wolff, Jerry; Sherman, Paul (eds.). Rodent Societies: an Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective. p. 70.
- Biotics Database. 2005. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, NatureServe, and the network of Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centers.
- Burt, W. H. and R. P. Grossenheider. A field guide to the mammals. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1980.
- 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.
 | This Peromyscus article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Mammals of Mexico
- Mammals of the United States
- Fauna of the Western United States
- Peromyscus
- Mammals described in 1891
- Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam
- Cricetidae stubs