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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Peromyscus
SPECIES Peromyscus madrensis
Author: | Merriam, 1898. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 16. | Common Name: | Tres Marías Deermouse | Type Locality: | México, Nayarit, Tres Marías Isls, María Madre Isl. | Distribution: | Tres Marías Isls, México. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | P. boylii species group. Treated as a subspecies of P. boylii by Osgood (1909) but considered distinct by Carleton (1977) in a revision of boylii group forms in W México. Viewed as closely related to P. simulus by Carleton et al. (1982), but cladistically basal to most other boylii group species in trees generated from cytochrome b data (Tiemann-Boege et al., 2000). Perhaps extirpated on María Magdalena Isl, where Rattus rattus is now abundant (Carleton et al., 1982; Wilson, 1991). |
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