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
Peromyscus ochraventer
Baker 1951
Peromyscus ochraventer
Baker 1951
,
Univ.
Kansas
Mus
. Nat. Hist. Misc. Publ., 5: 213
.
Type Locality:
México
,
Tamaulipas
, El Carrizo,
70 km
(by highway) S Ciudad Victoria and
6 km
W Panamerican Highway,
2800 ft
(
853 m
).
Vernacular Names:
El Carrizo Deermouse
.
Distribution:
Moist forests of S
Tamaulipas
and adjacent
San Luis Potosí
,
México
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Species group indeterminate. Revised by
Huckaby (1980)
as part of the
mexicanus
species group (
sensu
Hooper, 1968
), an assignment not supported by allozymic analyses (
Rogers and Engstrom, 1992
). Departs from conservative karyotypic pattern exhibited by species of the
mexicanus
group (
Robbins and Baker, 1981
;
Smith et al., 1986
). Provisionally assigned to the
furvus
species group by Carleton (1989), but this association too is questioned by cytochrome
b
data, which indicate
P. ochraventer
to be strongly divergent genetically from both
P. furvus
and
mexicanus
group species (
P. mexicanus
,
P. melanocarpus
) (
Harris et al., 2000
).