White-footed Mouse
Peromyscus leucopus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,802
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the Southwestern United States and Mexico. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-footed mouse”.