Endangered
Tres Marias Island Mouse
Peromyscus madrensis
Tres Marias Island Mouse is a rodent in the family Cricetidae (order Rodentia) — Peromyscus madrensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
There is a faint stripe of darker fur towards the rear of the animal's back, and there are dark spots on the ankles.
The Tres Marías island mouse is the size of a small rat, with a head and body measuring 21 to 25 centimetres (8.3 to 9.8 in), and a tail 10 to 13 centimetres (3.9 to 5.1 in) in length.
Range and habitat
The Tres Marías island mouse or Tres Marías deermouse is a rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only on the Islas Marías off the west coast of Mexico (part of the state of Nayarit). When last assessed, it was common on María Cleofás Island, but rare or absent on the other, more disturbed, islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Tres Marias Island 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 Tres Marias Island Mouse, Wikidata item Q1768362. 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.
