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Florida mouse

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Florida mouse
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Recent
Vulnerable
Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Podomys
Osgood, 1909
Species:
P. floridanus
Binomial name
Podomys floridanus
(Chapman, 1889)
Synonyms[3]

Hesperomys floridanus Chapman, 1889
Hesperomys macropus Merriam, 1890
Sitomys floridanus: Chapman, 1894
Peromyscus floridanus: Bangs, 1896
Podomys floridanus: Carleton, 1980

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.

In Florida, Florida mice may be eaten by some growth stage of invasive snakes such as Burmese pythons, reticulated pythons, Central African rock pythons, Southern African rock pythons, boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, Bolivian anacondas, dark-spotted anacondas, and green anacondas.[4]

References

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  1. ^ 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. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  2. ^ NatureServe. "Podomys floridanus". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  3. ^ Jones, Cheri A.; Charles Layne (April 23, 1993), "Podomys floridanus" (PDF), Mammalian Species (427), The American Society of Mammalogists: 1–5, doi:10.2307/3504239, JSTOR 3504239
  4. ^ Final Environmental Assessment For The Large Constrictor Snakes Listed As Injurious Wildlife under the Lacey Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. January 2012.

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