Northwestern deer mouse

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The northwestern deer mouse or Keen's mouse (Peromyscus keeni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and in Alaska and Washington in the United States.[1] It was named after the Rev. John Henry Keen in 1894.[2]

Northwestern deer mouse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species:
P. keeni
Binomial name
Peromyscus keeni
(Rhoads, 1894)
Synonyms

oreas Bangs, 1898
sitkensis Merriam, 1897

References

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  1. ^ a b Cassola, F. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Peromyscus keeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T135164A115204632. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T135164A22359754.en. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. ^ Beolens, Bo; et al. (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals p.220. JHU Press. p. 574. ISBN 9780801895333.
  • 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.
  • Peromyscus keeni, Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World (Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed.)

Hanley, Thomas A., and Jeffrey C. Barnard. “Spatial Variation in Population Dynamics of Sitka Mice in Floodplain Forests.” Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 80, no. 3, 1999, pp. 866–879. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1383255.