Critically Endangered
Zempoaltepec deermouse
Habromys lepturus
Zempoaltepec deermouse is a rodent in the family Cricetidae (order Rodentia) — Habromys lepturus, recorded as Critically Endangered.
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 southeastern Mexico, at one locality on Cerro Zempoaltepec above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Oaxaca state.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Zempoaltepec deermouse 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 Zempoaltepec deermouse — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q307354. 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.
