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 http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Peromyscus melanocarpus Osgood, 1904 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington , 17:73 . TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico , Oaxaca , Cerro Zempoaltepec, above Yacochi . DISTRIBUTION: Cloud forest of Sierra de Juarez and Sierra de Zempoaltepec, NC Oaxaca , Mexico . COMMENTS: Range and distinctive morphology substantiated by Huckaby (1980) . See Rickart and Robertson (1985 , Mammalian Species, 241). P. megalops species group.