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--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Peromyscus
SPECIES Peromyscus polius
Author: | Osgood, 1904. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 17: 61. | Common Name: | Chihuahuan Deermouse | Type Locality: | México, Chihuahua, Colonia García. | Distribution: | WC Chihuahua, México. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Species group indeterminate. A distinctive species of enigmatic relationships: initially placed with the truei group (Osgood, 1909) but provisionally reassigned to the boylii group by Hoffmeister (1951; also see Bradley and Schmidly, 1987, and commentary by Anderson, 1972:348). Allozymic distance data weakly support the latter association (Bradley et al., 1996; Kilpatrick and Zimmerman, 1975; Schmidly et al., 1985), but mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) interpretations of its kinship are inconclusive (Tiemann-Boege et al., 2000). |
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