Salt marsh harvest mouse

Salt-marsh harvest mouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Reithrodontomys
Species:
R. raviventris
Binomial name
Reithrodontomys raviventris
Dixon, 1908
Subspecies
  • R. r. raviventris
  • R. r. halicoetes

The salt-marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris), also known as the red-bellied harvest mouse, is an endangered rodent endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area salt marshes in California.

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