HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Peromyscus
SPECIES Peromyscus sagax
Author: | Elliot, 1903. | Citation: | Field Columbian Mus. Publ. 71, Zool. Ser., 3: 142. | Common Name: | Michoacán Deermouse | Type Locality: | México, Michoacán, La Palma. | Distribution: | NC Michoacán, México; limits uncertain. | Comments: | Species group indeterminate. Recognition long obscured as a full synonym first of P. truei gratus (Osgood, 1909) and later of P. boylii levipes (Hoffmeister, 1946), but morphometric, karyotypic, and electrophoretic information demonstrates the form’s specific separation from P. boylii, P. levipes, and P. gratus (Bradley et al., 1996). Gene-sequence data indicate that P. sagax is as much differentiated from the boylii complex as from the aztecus and truei species groups (Tiemann-Boege et al., 2000). |
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