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SPECIES Peromyscus keeni
Author: | Rhoads, 1894. | Citation: | Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 46: 258. | Common Name: | Northwestern Deermouse | Type Locality: | Canada, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Isls, Graham Isl, Massett. | Distribution: | S Alaska, W British Columbia, and W Washington, west of the Coastal and Cascade mountain ranges and including continental shelf islands and archipelagos. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as P. oreas and P. sitkensis. | Comments: | P. maniculatus species group. Relegated to a subspecies of P. maniculatus by Osgood (1909) and thereafter maintained as a junior synonym (Hall, 1981; Hooper, 1968; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Specific status, synonymies, and distribution with respect to P. maniculatus clarified by Hogan et al. (1993), who reassigned oreas and sitkensis, taxa formerly regarded as species, to subspecific rank; much morphological, genetic, and karyological information has been reported under those names (e.g., Allard and Greenbaum, 1988; Allard et al. 1987; Calhoun and Greenbaum, 1991; Cowan and Guiguet, 1965; Gunn and Greenbaum, 1986; Osgood, 1909; Pengilly et al., 1983; Sheppe, 1961; Sullivan et al., 1990; Thomas, 1973). About half of the synonyms listed are associated on the basis of distributional proximity and literature reports (see Hogan et al., 1993:829), a zoogeographically plausible supposition that deserves firsthand specimen examination and empirical ratification. Reconstruction of historical distributions to account for divergence of P. keeni and P. maniculatus considered by Zheng et al. (2003), who also discussed the status of sitkensis. |
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algidus Osgood, 1909 beresfordi Guiguet, 1955 cancrivorus McCabe and Cowan, 1945 carli Guiguet, 1955 doylei McCabe and Cowan, 1945 hylaeus Osgood, 1908 interdictus Anderson, 1932 isolatus Cowan, 1935 macrorhinus (Rhoads, 1894) maritimus McCabe and Cowan, 1945 oceanicus Cowan, 1935 oreas Bangs, 1898 pluvialis McCabe and Cowan, 1945 prevostensis Osgood, 1901 rubriventer McCabe and Cowan, 1945 sartinensis Guiguet, 1955 sitkensis Merriam, 1897 triangularis Guiguet, 1955
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