cactus mouse

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Noun1.cactus mouse - burrowing mouse of desert areas of southwestern United States
Peromyscus eremicus
genus Peromyscus, Peromyscus - New World wood mice
wood mouse - any of various New World woodland mice
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The desert pocket mouse, Merriam's kangaroo rat, the cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus), the deer mouse, and the southern plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus) also were taken at these localities.
Notes on harvest mice (Reithrodontomys) of the Big Bend region of Texas
Previous studies of wild rodents in coastal southern California (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura Counties) showed antibody to an arenavirus in dusky-footed and desert woodrats, a brush mouse, California mice, a cactus mouse, deer mice, and western harvest mice (3,9).
Bear Canyon virus: an arenavirus naturally associated with the California mouse (Peromyscus californicus)
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