Summary ²

The western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis) is a small neotomine mouse native to most of the western United States. Many authorities consider the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse to be a subspecies, but the two are now usually treated separately.

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1. (c) Bryan Hamilton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bryan Hamilton
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reithrodontomys_megalotis

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