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title: "Western Deer Mouse"
description: "Peromyscus sonoriensis — Säugetiere. The western deermouse or western deer mouse is a rodent native to North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/western-deer-mouse
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Western Deer Mouse

> Peromyscus sonoriensis — Säugetiere. The western deermouse or western deer mouse is a rodent native to North America.

- Scientific name: *Peromyscus sonoriensis*
- Category: `mammals` (Säugetiere)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald)
- iNaturalist observations: 6890
- Wikidata: [Q107404806](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107404806)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1431239](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1431239)

## Names

- en: Western Deer Mouse

## Countries with the most observations

US (2079), CA (725), MX (5)

## Summary

The western deermouse or western deer mouse is a rodent native to North America. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". It is widespread throughout the western half of the continent, mainly in areas west of the Mississippi River.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_deer_mouse

## Photo

![Western Deer Mouse](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/western-deer-mouse/medium.jpg)

Photo: Quillipede · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/319278731

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/western-deer-mouse?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).