Aztec mouse
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| Species: | P. aztecus
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| Peromyscus aztecus (Saussure, 1860)
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The Aztec Mouse (Peromyscus aztecus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
Habitat
Peromyscus aztecus lives in temperate and mountainous regions. It prefers to live in the limits of humid highland forests. Its habitat uses to be between 500 m and 3200 m above the ocean level. It is also found in plantations of sugar cane and coffee.[1]
Feeding habits
The Aztec mouse is mainly insectivore: it eats ants, crickets, beetles and weevils. Its diet also includes some seeds (notably from the Solanum genus) and green plant material.[1]
Distribution
The species is found in some disjunct regions: center of Veracruz, center of Guerrero, Oaxaca and east Chiapas in Mexico. It is also found in some regions of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.[1]
Conservation status
The Aztec mouse is not a threatened species. Its conservation status is of least concern because its large distribution, a presumed large population and its tolerance to various kinds of habitats. Since it lives in protection areas and there is no apparent threat, it is unlikely that it declines to levels of threatened species.[1]
References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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