Mexican Harvest Mouse

Mexican Harvest Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Reithrodontomys
Species:	R. mexicanus
Binomial name
Reithrodontomys mexicanus (Saussure, 1860)

The Mexican Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama in a variety of habitats at altitudes from sea level to 3800 m.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Delgado, C., Tirira, D., Gómez-Laverde, M., Matson, J. & Samudio, R. (2008). Reithrodontomys mexicanus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 March 2009.

• 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.