Florida mouse

Florida mouse
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Recent
Vulnerable
Vulnerable (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Podomys
Osgood, 1909
Species:
P. floridanus
Binomial name
Podomys floridanus
(Chapman, 1889)
Synonyms

Hesperomys floridanus Chapman, 1889
Hesperomys macropus Merriam, 1890
Sitomys floridanus: Chapman, 1894
Peromyscus floridanus: Bangs, 1896
Podomys floridanus: Carleton, 1980

The Florida mouse (Podomys floridanus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Podomys. True to its name, it is endemic to Florida in the United States.

Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

In Florida, Florida mice may be eaten by some growth stage of invasive snakes such as Burmese pythons, reticulated pythons, Central African rock pythons, Southern African rock pythons, boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, Bolivian anacondas, dark-spotted anacondas, and green anacondas.