What is Cotton mouse?
{{Taxobox | name = Cotton Mouse | image = Peromyscus gossypinus.jpg | status = LR/lc | status_system = iucn2.3 | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammalia]] | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | familia = [[Cricetidae]] | subfamilia = [[Neotominae]] | genus = ''[[Peromyscus]]'' | species_group = ''[[Peromyscus leucopus species group|P. leucopus]]'' | species = '''''P. gossypinus''''' | binomial = ''Peromyscus gossypinus'' | binomial_authority = (Le Conte, 1850) | synonyms = }} The '''cotton mouse''' (''Peromyscus gossypinus'') is a species of [[rodent]] in the [[Cricetidae]] family. It is found only in the [[United States]]. This mouse is very close to extinction.{{Fact|date=April 2009}} ==References== * Kirkland, G.L., Jr. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/42653/all Peromyscus gossypinus]{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007. *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. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Rodents]] [[Category:Mammals of North America]]