Southern Pygmy Mouse

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Southern Pygmy Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Baiomys Species: B. musculus
Binomial name
Baiomys musculus (Merriam, 1892)

The Southern Pygmy Mouse (Baiomys musculus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Baiomys musculus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.