Endangered
Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse
Megadontomys cryophilus
Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse, also called Oaxacan Giant Deer Mouse, is a rodent in the family Cricetidae (order Rodentia) — Megadontomys cryophilus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mexico.
The rodent
Rodents have ever-growing incisors. Species here are wild forms with a threat category — chipmunks, mole-rats, deer mice.
This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the northern highlands of Oaxaca (Mexico), where it lives at altitudes between 2,400 and 3,500 masl. Their natural habitats are cloud forests and pine and oak forests.
GBIF currently lists 560 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is threatened by the cutting of trees.
Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Oaxaca Giant Deer Mouse — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1770258 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
