Peromyscus yucatanicus J. A. Allen and Chapman 1897

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1079

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Peromyscus yucatanicus J. A. Allen and Chapman 1897 View in CoL

Peromyscus yucatanicus J. A. Allen and Chapman 1897 View in CoL , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 9: 8.

Type Locality: México, Yucatán, Chichén Itzá.

Vernacular Names: Yucatan Deermouse.

Synonyms: Peromyscus badius Osgood 1904 .

Distribution: N Yucatán Peninsula, México.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: 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).

References

Carleton, M. D. 1973. A survey of gross stomach morphology in New World Cricetinae (Rodentia, Muroidea), with comments on functional interpretations. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 146: 1 - 43.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Huckaby, D. G. 1980. Species limits in the Peromyscus mexicanus group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muroidea). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 326: 1 - 24.

Lawlor, T. E. 1965. The Yucatan deer mouse, Peromyscus yucatanicus. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 16: 421 - 438.

Rogers, D. S., and M. D. Engstrom. 1992. Evolutionary implications of allozymic variation in tropical Peromyscus of the mexicanus species group. Journal of Mammalogy, 73: 55 - 69.

Smith, S. A., R. D. Bradley, and I. F. Greenbaum. 1986. Karyotypic conservatism in the Peromyscus mexicanus group. Journal of Mammalogy, 67: 584 - 586.

Young, C. J., and J. K. Jones, Jr. 1983. Peromyscus yucatanicus. Mammalian Species, 196: 1 - 3.