Mesquite mouse

Mesquite mouse

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Species : Peromyscus merriami

 

The Mesquite mouse is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the mesquite mouse

Mesquite Mouse or Peromyscus merriami is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . (Full text)

3 Status: The mesquite mouse is a Wildlife Species of Concern in Arizona. (Full text)

The Mesquite Mouse is from the order Rodentia. (Full text)

A single desert riparian mammal—Merriam's mesquite mouse—is now extinct due to the loss of riparian habitat at the hand of groundwater pumping, arroyo cutting, and overgrazing. (Full text)

1. mesquite, mesquit -- (any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods)
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