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 crinitus (Merriam, 1891) . N. Am. Fauna, 5:53 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , Idaho , Jerome Co., Shoshone Falls, north side of Snake River . DISTRIBUTION: E Oregon and SW Idaho , south through Nevada and parts of Utah and W Colorado , USA , to Baja California Norte and NW Sonora, Mexico. SYNONYMS: auripectus , delgadilli, disparilus, doutii, pallidissimus, pergracilis, peridoneus, petraius , rupicolus, scitulus, scopulorum, stephensi . COMMENTS: Revised by Osgood (1909) ; subspecific taxonomy updated by Hall and Hoffmeister (1942) . Initially placed in subgenus Haplomylomys ( Osgood, 1909 ) ; later transferred to subgenus Peromyscus ( Hooper and Musser, 1964b ) . Karyotype viewed as primitive for the genus ( Greenbaum and Baker, 1978 ; Stangl and Baker, 1984b ). Specific homogeneity questionable. P. crinitus species group. See Johnson and Armstrong (1987 , Mammalian Species, 287).