HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Peromyscus
SPECIES Peromyscus yucatanicus
Author: | J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1897. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9: 8. | Common Name: | Yucatán Deermouse | Type Locality: | México, Yucatán, Chichén Itzá. | Distribution: | N Yucatán Peninsula, México. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | P. mexicanus species group. The notion that P. yucatanicus is most closely related to P. mexicanus (e.g., Hooper, 1968; Lawlor, 1965) has not found support from morphological information (Carleton, 1973; Huckaby, 1980); the weak differentiation in chromosomes and allozymes offers little resolution of their level of kinship, as is true among mexicanus group species in general (Rogers and Engstrom, 1992; Rogers et al., 1984; Smith et al., 1986). Huckaby (1980) followed Lawlor (1965) in treating P. yucatanicus as monotypic; Hall (1981) accepted Osgood’s (1909) subspecific arrangement. See Young and Jones (1983, Mammalian Species, 196). |
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