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SPECIES Peromyscus eremicus

Author:Baird, 1857.
Citation:Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1): 479.
Common Name:Cactus Deermouse
Type Locality:USA, California, Imperial Co., Old Fort Yuma, Colorado River opposite Yuma, Arizona.
Distribution:SE California, S Nevada, and SW Utah east to Trans-Pecos Texas, USA; south along mainland coast to C Sinaloa, and on the Mexican Plateau to N Zacatecas and S San Luis Potosí, México.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:P. eremicus species group. Once included P. merriami (see Hoffmeister and Lee, 1963a), P. eva (see Lawlor, 1971b), and P. fraterculus (see Riddle et al., 2000a, c). Even following removal of these several species confused under eremicus, mitochondrial DNA variation delineates well-marked W (Sonoran) and E (Chihuahuan) lineages whose taxonomic status should be explored (see Walpole et al., 1997; Riddle et al., 2000c). Lawlor (1971a) relegated the population on Isla Turner, collatus, to subspecies, a relationship and ranking bolstered by molecular analyses (Hafner et al., 2001), but Hall (1981) and Alvarez-Castañeda and Cortés-Calva (1999) continued to list it as a species. Relationships of P. eremicus to various insular forms in Gulf of California elucidated first by Lawlor (1971a, b, 1983) and later Hafner et al. (2001). Genetic variation broadly surveyed by Avise et al. (1974), Walpole et al. (1997), and Riddle et al. (2000c). See Veal and Caire (1979, Mammalian Species, 118).
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Synonyms:

    alcorni Anderson, 1972
    anthonyi (Merriam, 1887)
    arenarius Mearns, 1896
    avius Osgood, 1909
    cedrosensis J. A. Allen, 1898
    cinereus Hall, 1931
    collatus Burt, 1932
    insulicola Osgood, 1909
    papagensis Goldman, 1917
    phaeurus Osgood, 1904
    polypolius Osgood, 1909
    pullus Blossom, 1933
    sinaloensis Anderson, 1972
    tiburonensis Mearns, 1897

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