Carleton's deer mouse

Carleton's deer mouse or Carleton's deermouse (Peromyscus carletoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". It is restricted to high-elevation pine-oak forests in Nayarit in western Mexico. A member of the Peromyscus boylii group, it was named as a species in 2014 and named after Peromyscus specialist Michael D. Carleton. It is a medium-sized species for the genus, with the tail a little longer than the head-body length. In the skull, the rostrum, the front part of the skull, is relatively short compared to related species, but the nasal bones are long relative to the rostrum.^[1] Based on DNA sequence data, the species is most closely related to Peromyscus levipes.^[2]

Carleton's deer mouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species:	P. carletoni
Binomial name
Peromyscus carletoni Bradley et al., 2014