Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
955
1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Osgoodomys
Hooper and Musser 1964
Osgoodomys
Hooper and
Musser 1964
,
Occas. Pap.
Mus
. Zool., Univ.
Michigan
, 635: 12
.
Type Species:
Peromyscus banderanus
J. A. Allen 1897
Species and subspecies:
1 species:
Species
Osgoodomys banderanus
(J. A. Allen 1897)
Discussion:
Reithrodontomyini. Diagnosed as a subgenus of
Peromyscus
by
Hooper and Musser (1964
b
)
and retained there by Hooper (1968); proposed as a distinct genus by
Carleton (1980)
. Anatomy of male reproductive system detailed by
Linzey and Layne (1969
,
1974
). Relationships assessed based on chromosomal banding (Rogers et al., 1984), protein electrophoresis (
Schmidly et al., 1985
), and mitochondrial DNA sequencing (
Engel et al., 1998
).