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Peromyscus is a genus of rodents.They are commonly referred to as deer mice or deermice, not to be confused with the chevrotain or "mouse deer". They are New World mice only distantly related to the common house and laboratory mouse, Mus musculus.
Carleton's deer mouse (Peromyscus carletoni) is a species of deermouse in the family Cricetidae. It is restricted to high-elevation pine-oak forests in Nayarit in western Mexico. A member of the Peromyscus boylii group, it was named as a species in 2014 and named after Peromyscus specialist Michael D. Carleton .
Peromyscus maniculatus is a rodent native to eastern North America.It is most commonly called the eastern deer mouse; when formerly grouped with the western deer mouse (P. sonoriensis), it was referred to as the North American deermouse [2] and is fairly widespread across most of North America east of the Mississippi River, with the major exception being the lowland southeastern United States.
The false canyon mouse grows to a total length of about 194 mm (7.6 in) including a tail of 110 mm (4.3 in). The dorsal fur is greyish-black glossed with cinnamon, and the underparts are white. The tail is scantily clad with hairs; the top half is blackish while the bottom side is pale, except for near the tip where it is dark both above and below.
In 1934, Robert W. Wilson designated P. nesodytes as a new species after discovering a mouse bone (a right ramus of the mandible). [3] He writes, “The outstanding character of P. nesodytes is its large size, which is greater than any living species of Peromyscus native to the United States.” [3] The only larger mice known are the extant mice of the genus Megadontomys found in Mexico and ...
The black-eared mouse is one of the smaller species in the genus Peromyscus, measuring 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7.1 in) in total length, including a relatively short tail, 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) long. The fur is tawny to yellow-brown over most of the body, fading from a darker shade on the back to paler on the flanks.
They can be mistaken for the eastern deer mouse, which is indistinguishable except by range, or for the white-footed mouse, which has a tail with indistinct bicoloring. Their range splits with the eastern deer mouse along the Mississippi River. They weigh between 15–32 grams and are usually around 170 millimeters long. [3] [4] [1]
Burt's deer mouse (Peromyscus caniceps) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. [2] It is endemic to Mexico , where it is found only on Montserrat Island off the east coast of Baja California Sur .