Biology:Florida mouse
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Short description: Species of rodent
| Florida mouse Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Recent
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Podomys Osgood, 1909 |
| Species: | P. floridanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)
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| Synonyms[3] | |
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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
- 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17830/22339074. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ NatureServe (7 April 2023). "Podomys floridanus". Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.102175/Podomys_floridanus.
- ↑ 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
- Field Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida: Florida Mouse, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2001, http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Podomys_floridanus.pdf, 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", Mammalian Species (The American Society of Mammalogists) (427): 1–5, doi:10.2307/3504239, http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-427-01-0001.pdf
- North American Mammals: Florida Mouse, Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History, http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=284, retrieved January 30, 2010
- Pergams, O.; NatureServe (2008), "Podomys floridanus.", 2009.2 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/17830/0, 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, https://archive.org/details/mammalsofeastern00whit
Wikidata ☰ Q262948 entry
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