#0275 · 🦊 mammals

White-footed Mouse

🇳🇱 Witvoetmuis ·Peromyscus leucopus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The white-footed mouse ( Peromyscus leucopus ) is a rodent native to North America from Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces (excluding the island of Newfoundland) to the southwest United States and Mexico. In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia. It is also known as the woodmouse , particularly in Texas.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,495iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,495 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1818 (208 years ago).