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GENUS Osgoodomys

Author:Hooper and Musser, 1964.
Citation:Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 635: 12.
Type Species:Peromyscus banderanus J. A. Allen, 1897.
Comments:Reithrodontomyini. Diagnosed as a subgenus of Peromyscus by Hooper and Musser (1964b) and retained there by Hooper (1968); proposed as a distinct genus by Carleton (1980). Anatomy of male reproductive system detailed by Linzey and Layne (1969, 1974). Relationships assessed based on chromosomal banding (Rogers et al., 1984), protein electrophoresis (Schmidly et al., 1985), and mitochondrial DNA sequencing (Engel et al., 1998).
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SPECIES banderanus

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