San Esteban Island mouse

The San Esteban Island mouse (Peromyscus stephani) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.^[2] It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from San Esteban Island in the northern Gulf of California.^[1]

San Esteban Island mouse
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species:	P. stephani
Binomial name
Peromyscus stephani Townsend, 1912