Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter 193469 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 f82d72a9-7757-4f0d-8748-fc07b2a86337 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Peromyscus ochraventer Baker, 1951 . Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Mise. Pubi., 5:213 . TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico , Tamaulipas , El Carrizo, 70 km (by highway) S Ciudad Victoria and 6 km W Panamerican Highway, 2800 ft . DISTRIBUTION: Moist forests of S Tamaulipas and adjacent San Luis Potosi , Mexico . COMMENTS: Revised by Huckaby (1980) as part of the mexicanus species group ( sensu Hooper, 1968b ). Departs from conservative karyotypic pattern exhibited by species of the mexicanus group ( Robbins and Baker, 1981 ; Smith et al., 1986 ); provisionally assigned to the furvus species group by Carleton (1989).