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title: "Witvoetmuis"
description: "Peromyscus leucopus — Zoogdieren. The white-footed mouse is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the Southwestern United States and Mexico."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/white-footed-mouse
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Witvoetmuis

> Peromyscus leucopus — Zoogdieren. The white-footed mouse is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the Southwestern United States and Mexico.

- Scientific name: *Peromyscus leucopus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 9970
- Wikidata: [Q732863](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732863)
- iNaturalist taxon: [44395](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/44395)

## Names

- en: White-footed Mouse
- de: Weißfußmaus
- es: Ratón de patas blancas
- fr: Souris à pattes blanches
- nl: Witvoetmuis

## Countries with the most observations

US (3853), CA (150), MX (94)

## Summary

The white-footed mouse is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the Southwestern United States and Mexico. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice". In the Maritimes, its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia. It is also erroneously known as the woodmouse, a name which instead describes the unrelated Apodemus sylvaticus, particularly in Texas.

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

## Photo

![Witvoetmuis](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-footed-mouse/medium.jpg)

Photo: decaturjosh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75263338

## Machine access

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