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--> GENUS Peromyscus
SPECIES Peromyscus megalops
Author: | Merriam, 1898. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 119. | Common Name: | Broad-faced Deermouse | Type Locality: | México, Oaxaca, La Cieneguilla Ranch, near Santa María Ozolotepec, 10,000 ft (3048 m). | Distribution: | Humid forests in mountains of C Guerrero, S and NC Oaxaca, México. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | P. megalops species group. Following Osgood (1909), Hall (1981) continued to maintain melanurus as a subspecies, a form that Huckaby (1980) documented as a species distinct from P. megalops. Distribution and ecology reviewed by Musser (1964); Briones-Salas et al. (2001) recently documented the species in the Sierra Mazteca, NC Oaxaca. Carleton (1989) observed Osgood’s (1909) earlier arrangement of a megalops species group (including P. melanocarpus and P. melanurus) apart from the mexicanus species group; segregation from mexicanus complex receives support from genic data, but not including melanocarpus (Rogers and Engstrom, 1992). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
auritus Merriam, 1898 comptus Merriam, 1898
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