Florida mammals

Florida mouse in Florida

Podomys floridanus

Native to Florida S3 Vulnerable in Florida

Not listed as nonindigenous in Florida by USGS NAS; native to its Florida range.

IUCN Red List status

  1. LC
  2. NT
  3. VU
  4. EN
  5. CR
  6. EW
  7. EX

NT – Near Threatened

Close to qualifying as threatened in the near future.

Florida mouse in Florida, by the numbers

Occasional in Florida 57th most recorded of 116 mammals logged in Florida

3,681 occurrence records
45 with iNaturalist photos

3,681 total records count every Florida occurrence from GBIF and iNaturalist; the map plots a georeferenced sample of 300; the monthly chart covers the 3,493 records with a full observation date.

When to look for the Florida mouse in Florida

Most sightings fall in February to August.

3,493 Florida occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) by month of year. Shows when the species is recorded, not a guarantee of presence.

Monthly Florida records (table)
MonthRecords
January193
February266
March392
April374
May379
June369
July368
August438
September245
October120
November164
December185

Monthly florida mouse occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) in Florida.

Seasonality

Year-round in Florida, with recorded sightings peaking in February–August.

Occurrence map

Where Florida mouse has been recorded in Florida

300 records mapped · zoom and drag to explore

300 Florida records mapped

Notable places to look

Park, forest, or monumentiNaturalist records
Ordway-Swisher Biological Station 702
Withlacoochee State Forest 1
Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve 1

Protected places with the most florida mouse sightings, from the USGS Protected Areas Database plus named mountain ranges, good spots to look, not a full breakdown, so they don't sum to the total.

Where it's recorded in Florida

CountyRecords
Putnam County 986
Alachua County 885
Levy County 581
Highlands County 338
Marion County 268
Citrus County 243
Polk County 40
Palm Beach County 34
Volusia County 31
Brevard County 30
Osceola County 20
Gilchrist County 20
23 other counties 205

The complete county distribution, spread across 35 Florida counties. Every occurrence record falls in one county, so these sum to the total. Counties from GBIF and US Census boundaries.

The Florida mouse is found nowhere else on Earth, and NatureServe rates it S3 (vulnerable) in the state and G3 (vulnerable) globally, matching concern levels for a species with no range to retreat to elsewhere. Its 3,681 Florida records lean heavily on GBIF (3,666) over iNaturalist (45), suggesting museum or survey data drives most of the record count.

Reports peak in August at 438, the year’s single highest month, with secondary highs in March and May. That pattern in the records doesn’t necessarily match when the mouse is most active; it more likely reflects when documentation happened to concentrate.

Occurrence data from iNaturalist and GBIF.

More mammals in Florida in the atlas

Data & sources

The data and visualizations on this page draw on these open sources: