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 leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818) . Am. Mon . Mag., 3:446 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , Kentucky , "pine barrens," presumably near mouth of Ohio River . DISTRIBUTION: C and E USA , excluding Florida; northwards to S Alberta and to S Ontario , Quebec and Nova Scotia , Canada ; southwards to N Durango and along Caribbean coast to Isthmus of Tehuantepec and NW Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico . SYNONYMS: affinis , amnwdytes, arboreus , aridulus , arizonae , brevicaudus , campestris , canus , castaneus , caudatus , cozulmelae , easti, emmonsi , flaccidus, fuscus , incensus, lachiguiriensis, mearnsii , mesomelas , michiganensis , minnisotae, myoides , musculoides , noveboracensis , ochraceus , texanus, torniilo. COMMENTS: Revised by Osgood (1909) . Distinctive northeastern ( leucopus ) and southwestern (texanus) cytotypes reported (R. J. Baker et al., 1983b ), with introgression across hybrid zone in central Oklahoma ( Nelson et al., 1987 ; Stangl, 1986 ; Stangl and Baker, 1984a ). Genetic variation investigated by Browne (1977) —also see above account of P. gossypinus . See Lackey et al. (1985 , Mammalian Species, 247).