Cotton Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Genus:	Peromyscus
Species group:	P. leucopus
Species:	P. gossypinus
Binomial name
Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1850)

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.^[source?]

• Kirkland, G.L., Jr. 1996. Peromyscus gossypinus^{[permanent dead link]}. 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.

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