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 polionotus (Wagner, 1843) . Arch. Naturgesch., 9, 2:52 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , Georgia . DISTRIBUTION: NE Mississippi to W South Carolina , south through Alabama and Georgia , to W and most of peninsular Florida, USA . STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as P. p. allophrys, P. p. ammobates, P. p. phasma , and P. p. trissyllepsis; U.S. ESA - Treatened and IUCN - Indeterminate as P. p. niveiventris . SYNONYMS: albifrons, allophrys, ammobates, arenarius , baliolus, colemani, decoloratus , griseobracatus, leucocephalus , lucubrans, niveiventris , peninsularis , phasma , rhoadsi , subgriseus, sumneri, trissyllepsis. COMMENTS: Revised by Osgood (1909) . Pleisitocene origination of subspecies hypothesized by Bowen (1968) ; intraspecific genetic differentiation surveyed by Selander et al. (1971) . Relationships assessed by Avise et al. (1979) , Rogers et al. (1984), and Stangl and Baker (1984b) . P. maniculatus species group.