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The deer mouse nests alone for the most part but during the winter will nest in groups of 10 or more. [26] Deer mice, specifically the prairie form, are also abundant in the farmland of the midwestern United States. [5] Deer mice can be found active on top of snow or beneath logs during the winter seasons. [17]
P. sonoriensis is a short-tailed deermouse with a distinctive white underside and white feet. Their coat color ranges from fulvous to brownish. 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.
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.
The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the southwestern United States and Mexico. [1] It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia. [2]
Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice. Neotomines are related to the other two subfamilies of mice in the New World , the Sigmodontinae and Tylomyinae .
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 California deermouse has very large ears, and its tail is longer than the head and body combined. Including the tail, which is about 117 to 156 mm (4.6 to 6.1 in) long, the mouse ranges in length from 220 to 285 mm (8.7 to 11.2 in). [6] The coat is overall orange, mixed with black and brown hairs.
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 .