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SPECIES Peromyscus maniculatus
Author: | Wagner, 1845. | Citation: | Arch. Naturgesch., 11(1): 148. | Common Name: | North American Deermouse | Type Locality: | Canada, Labrador, Moravian settlements. | Distribution: | Panhandle of Alaska and across N Canada, south through most of continental USA, excluding the SE and E seaboard, to southernmost Baja California Sur and to NC Oaxaca, México; including many landbridge islands. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as P. m. anacapae and P. m. clementis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | P. maniculatus species group. A broadly distributed and morphologically highly variable form once confused with many taxa now reallocated to P. leucopus (see Osgood, 1909). Formerly included long-tailed populations in NW North America recently separated as P. keeni. Status and relationships of P. maniculatus have been extensively addressed with regard to P. keeni (or as its junior synonyms oreas and sitkensis—Allard et al., 1987; Allard and Greenbaum, 1988; Gunn and Greenbaum, 1986; Hogan et al., 1993, 1997; Zheng et al., 2003), P. melanotis (Bowers, 1974; Bowers et al., 1973; Greenbaum and Baker, 1978), P. polionotus (Avise et al., 1979; Hogan et al., 1997; Robbins and Baker, 1981), and P. sejugis (Avise et al., 1979; Hafner et al., 2001; Hogan et al., 1997; Lawlor, 1983); see those accounts. Regional studies of geographic variation have clarified distributions and realigned certain subspecific ranges: e.g., populations in N Wisconsin and on islands in the N Great Lakes (Long and Long, 1993); those in S Maine (Kilpatrick et al., 1994); those in Arizona (Hoffmeister, 1986); those inhabiting the Llano Estacado, N Texas and vicinity (Cooper et al., 1993); and those at the southern end of the Mexican Plateau, C México (Nanez-Jiminez and Martínez-Coronel, 1995). Differences in craniodental shape according to dietary consistency investigated using laboratory animals by Myers et al. (1996), who discussed their bearing on systematic interpretations among wild populations. Probable extinction of San Roque Isl population (cineritius) reported by Alvarez-Castañeda and Cortes-Calva (1999). Even after removal of long-tailed populations in NW North America (i.e., P. keeni), appreciable variation in morphological, chromosomal, and biochemical data still cautions that more than one species is represented among the short-tailed (e.g., bairdii) and long-tailed (e.g., gracilis, nubiterrae) morphotypes in C and NE North America (Bradshaw and Hsu, 1972; Calhoun et al., 1988; Koh and Peterson, 1983; Lansman et al., 1983; Myers Uncie et al., 1998). Trees derived from mitochondrial DNA sequences represent maniculatus as paraphyletic with respect to P. keeni and P. sejugis (Hogan et al. 1997). Meaningful delineation of subspecies can only be achieved within the context of this much needed revision; see Hall (1981) for conventional arrangement of races (excepting those now removed to P. keeni). |
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abietorum Bangs, 1896 akeleyi Elliot, 1899 alpinus Cowan, 1937 anacapae von Bloeker, 1942 angustus Hall, 1932 anticostiensis Moulthrop, 1937 arcticus (Coues, 1877) arcticus (Mearns, 1890) argentatus Copeland and Church, 1906 artemisiae (Rhoads, 1894) assimilis Nelson and Goldman, 1931 austerus (Baird, 1855) bairdii (Hoy and Kennicott, 1857) bairdii (Coues, 1877) balaclavae McCabe and Cowan, 1945 blandus Osgood, 1904 borealis Mearns, 1911 canadensis (Miller, 1893) catalinae Elliot, 1903 cineritius J. A. Allen, 1898 clementis Mearns, 1896 coolidgei Thomas, 1898 deserticolus (Mearns, 1890) dorsalis Nelson and Goldman, 1931 dubius J. A. Allen, 1898 elusus Nelson and Goldman, 1931 eremus Osgood, 1909 exiguus J. A. Allen, 1898 exterus Nelson and Goldman, 1931 fulvus Osgood, 1904 gambelii (Baird, 1857) georgiensis Hall, 1938 geronimensis J. A. Allen, 1898 gracilis (Le Conte, 1855) gunnisoni Goldman, 1937 hollisteri Osgood, 1909 hueyi Nelson and Goldman, 1932 imperfectus Dice, 1925 inclarus Goldman, 1939 insolatus (Rhoads, 1894) labecula Elliot, 1903 luteus Osgood, 1905 magdalenae Osgood, 1909 margaritae Osgood, 1909 martinensis Nelson and Goldman, 1931 medius Mearns, 1896 nebrascensis (Coues, 1877) nebrascensis (Mearns, 1890) nubiterrae Rhoads, 1896 oresterus Elliot, 1903 osgoodi Mearns, 1911 ozarkiarum Black, 1935 pallescens J. A. Allen, 1896 perimekurus Elliot, 1903 plumbeus C. F. Jackson, 1939 rubidus Osgood, 1901 rufinus (Merriam, 1890) sanctaerosae von Bloeker, 1940 santacruzae Nelson and Goldman, 1931 saturatus Bangs, 1897 saxamans McCabe and Cowan, 1945 serratus Davis, 1939 sonoriensis (Le Conte, 1853) streatori Nelson and Goldman, 1931 subarcticus J. A. Allen, 1899 thurberi (J. A. Allen, 1893) umbrinus Miller, 1897
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