HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Peromyscus
SPECIES Peromyscus melanocarpus
Author: | Osgood, 1904. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 17: 73. | Common Name: | Black-wristed Deermouse | Type Locality: | México, Oaxaca, Cerro Zempoaltépec, above Yacochi. | Distribution: | Humid montane forests of Sierras de Zempoaltépec, Juárez, and Mazteca, ca. 1500-2500 m, NC Oaxaca, México. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Species group indeterminate. Restricted range and distinctive morphology substantiated by Huckaby (1980); recently documented in the Sierra Mazteca, NC Oaxaca, by Briones-Salas et al. (2001). Age, sex, and individual variation assessed by Cervantes et al. (1993b). Nearest specific relatives uncertain: initially segregated in the megalops species group apart from the mexicanus complex by Osgood (1909) and later Carleton (1989); or arranged within an expanded mexicanus species group by Hooper (1968) and Huckaby (1980). Neither of these associations finds support in phenetic and cladistic analyses of allozymes (Rogers and Engstrom, 1992), a result that leaves the species group assignment of melanocarpus as incertae sedis. See Rickart and Robertson (1985, Mammalian Species, 241). |
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