Northwestern deer mouse

Northwestern deer mouse

Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species:
P. keeni
Binomial name
Peromyscus keeni
(Rhoads, 1894)
Synonyms

oreas Bangs, 1898
sitkensis Merriam, 1897

The northwestern deer mouse, northwestern deermouse, or Keen's mouse (Peromyscus keeni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice".