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Black-wristed deer mouse
P. melanocarpus in Oaxaca, Mexico
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species:	P. melanocarpus
Binomial name
Peromyscus melanocarpus Osgood, 1904

The black-wristed deer mouse (Peromyscus melanocarpus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Sierras de Zempoaltépec, Juárez, and Mazteca, sub-ranges of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in southern Mexico, between 1,500 and 2,500 meters elevation.

References

1. ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; de Grammont, P.C. (2018). "Peromyscus melanocarpus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T16676A22363072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T16676A22363072.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

• 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.

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