Peromyscus oreas Bangs, 1898

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 734

Peromyscus oreas Bangs, 1898 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:84.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, British Columbia, Mount Baker Range, 6500 ft, near boundary of Whatcom Co., Washington.

DISTRIBUTION: SW British Columbia, including Vancouver Island and neighboring islands, Canada, and W Washington, USA.

SYNONYMS: interdictus, isolatus.

COMMENTS: Maintained as a subspecies of P. maniculatus by Osgood (1909) and Hooper (1968b). Sheppe (1961) considered oreas a distinct species, a conclusion ratified by recent taxonomic research ( Allard et al. 1987; Allard and Greenbaum, 1988; Calhoun and Greenbaum, 1991; Gunn and Greenbaum, 1986; Sullivan et al., 1990). Viewed as sister species of P. sitkensis ( Gunn and Greenbaum, 1986). Further clarification of relationship to taxa in P. maniculatus (e.g., keeni and macrorhinus) and to P. sitkensis is required. P. maniculatus species group.