>>53473276Categories like "Mouse Pokemon" does not mean literal mice exist. It just means that "mouse" is a word people in the Pokemon world created to categorize Pokemon like Pikachu.
A better example would be how Sun brought back to reference to Indian elephants in Raichu's Pokedex entry, but then Gen 8 introduces a Pokemon based on an Indian elephant, and so that entry gets retconned to reference Copperajah instead.