Florida mouse
| Florida mouse Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Recent | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Podomys Osgood, 1909 |
| Species: | P. floridanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889) | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
| Hesperomys floridanus Chapman, 1889 | |
The Florida mouse (Podomys floridanus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Podomys. True to its name, it is endemic to Florida in the United States.
Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
[edit]- Footnotes
- ^ Austin, J.; Roach, N. (2019). "Podomys floridanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T17830A22339074. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T17830A22339074.en. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- ^ NatureServe (April 7, 2023). "Podomys floridanus". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
- ^ Jones 1993, p. 1
- Literature cited
- Chapman, Frank M. (1889), "Preliminary descriptions of two apparently new species of the genus Hesperomys from Florida", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2, hdl:2246/1701
- Field Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida: Florida Mouse (PDF), Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2001, archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2011, retrieved January 30, 2010
- Hafner, David J.; Gordon L. Kirkland (1998), North American rodents: status survey and conservation action plan, IUCN, ISBN 2-8317-0463-4
- Jones, Cheri A.; Charles Layne (April 23, 1993), "Podomys floridanus" (PDF), Mammalian Species (427), The American Society of Mammalogists: 1–5, doi:10.2307/3504239, JSTOR 3504239
- North American Mammals: Florida Mouse, Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History, retrieved January 30, 2010
- Pergams, O. & NatureServe (2008), "Podomys floridanus.", 2009.2 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, retrieved January 30, 2010
- Whitaker, John O. Jr.; William J. Hamilton Jr. (1998), Mammals of the Eastern United States (3rd ed.), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-3475-0
