Critically Endangered
Perote Mouse
Peromyscus bullatus
Perote Mouse is a rodent in the family Cricetidae (order Rodentia) — Peromyscus bullatus, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The mouse is tawny-ochre in colour, with creamy white underparts. The middle of the back is duskier than the rest of the animal, and the sides of head are grey.
The Perote mouse is the size of a small rat, with a total length of 18 to 22 centimetres (7.1 to 8.7 in), among them a hairy tail that, at 9 to 12 centimetres (3.5 to 4.7 in), is typically longer than the animal's body. Even so, it can only be clearly distinguished from other mice in the genus Peromyscus by the fact that its ears are larger than its hindfeet by at least 2 mm (0.08 in), and, in the skeleton, by inflated auditory bullae.
Range and habitat
The Perote mouse is found only in the Oriental Basin region of Mexico, among them parts of western Veracruz, central Puebla and extreme eastern Tlaxcala. It is dominated by grassland and arid scrub vegetation, with some patches of coniferous forest. The mouse's highly specific habitat requirements, limited distribution, and declining population all contribute to its critically endangered status.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Perote Mouse is Critically 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 Perote Mouse, Wikidata item Q1767093. 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.
