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Peromyscus Gloger, 1841
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180275

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Haplomylomys Osgood, 1904
		Sitomys Fitzinger, 1867
		Vesperimus Coues, 1874
		Trinodontomys Rhoads, 1894
	Common Name(s):	Deer Mice [English]
		White-footed Mice [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2014

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents
	Suborder	Myomorpha Brandt, 1855 – Rats, souris, Mice, Rats, Voles, Gerbils, Hamsters, Lemmings
	Superfamily	Muroidea Illiger, 1811
	Family	Cricetidae Fischer, 1817
	Subfamily	Neotominae Merriam, 1894
	Genus	Peromyscus Gloger, 1841 – Deer Mice, White-footed Mice
		Direct Children:
	Species	Peromyscus attwateri J. A. Allen, 1895 – Texas mouse, Texas Deermouse, Attwater's Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus aztecus (Saussure, 1860) – Aztec Deermouse, Aztec Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus beatae Thomas, 1903 – Orizaba Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus boylii (Baird, 1855) – Ratón arbustero, Brush Mouse, Brush Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus bullatus Osgood, 1904 – Perote Mouse, Perote Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus californicus (Gambel, 1848) – Ratón californiano, California Deermouse, California Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus caniceps Burt, 1932 – Monserrat Island Deermouse, Burt's Deer Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus carletoni Bradley et al., 2014
	Species	Peromyscus crinitus (Merriam, 1891) – Ratón de cañada, Canyon Mouse, Canyon Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus dickeyi Burt, 1932 – Dickey's deer mouse, Dickey's Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus difficilis (J. A. Allen, 1891) – Zacatecan Deer Mouse, Ratón de roca, Southern Rock Deermouse, Rock Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus eremicus (Baird, 1857) – Ratón de cactus, Cactus Mouse, Cactus Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus eva Thomas, 1898 – Southern Baja Deermouse, Eva's Desert Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus fraterculus (Miller, 1892) – Northern Baja Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus furvus J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1897 – Blackish Deer Mouse, Blackish Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853) – Cotton Mouse, Cotton Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus grandis Goodwin, 1932 – Large Deermouse, Big Deer Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus gratus Merriam, 1898 – Merriam's Piñon Mouse, Osgood's Mouse, Ratón de Tlalpan, Saxicoline Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus guardia Townsend, 1912 – Angel Island Mouse, La Guarda Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus guatemalensis Merriam, 1898 – Guatemalan Deer Mouse, Guatemalan Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus gymnotis Thomas, 1894 – Naked-eared Deer Mouse, Naked-eared Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus hooperi Lee and Schmidly, 1977 – Hooper's Mouse, Hooper's Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus hylocetes Merriam, 1898 – Transvolcanic Deermouse, Southern Wood Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus interparietalis Burt, 1932 – San Lorenzo Mouse, San Lorenzo Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus keeni (Rhoads, 1894) – Keen's Mouse, Northwestern Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818) – souris à pattes blanches, White-footed Deermouse, White-footed Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus levipes Merriam, 1898 – Nimble-footed Mouse, Nimble-footed Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus madrensis Merriam, 1898 – Tres Marias Island mouse, Tres Marías Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner, 1845) – Ratón norteamericano, souris sylvestre, Deer Mouse, North American Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus mayensis Carleton and Huckaby, 1975 – Maya Mouse, Mayan Deermouse, Mayan Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus megalops Merriam, 1898 – Brown Deer Mouse, Broad-faced Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus mekisturus Merriam, 1898 – Puebla Deer Mouse, Puebla Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus melanocarpus Osgood, 1904 – Black-wristed Deermouse, Zempoaltepec Deer Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus melanophrys (Coues, 1874) – Plateau Mouse, Plateau Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus melanotis J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1897 – Ratón orejas negras, Black-eared Deermouse, Black-eared Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus melanurus Osgood, 1909 – Black-tailed Mouse, Black-tailed Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus merriami Mearns, 1896 – Mesquite Mouse, Ratón de Merriam, Merriam's Mouse, Merriam's Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus mexicanus (Saussure, 1860) – Mexican Deer Mouse, Mexican Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus nasutus (J. A. Allen, 1891) – Northern Rock Mouse, Ratón de Nuevo Mexico, Rock Mouse, Northern Rock Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus ochraventer Baker, 1951 – El Carrizo Deer Mouse, El Carrizo Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood, 1904 – Ratón tobillo blanco, White-ankled Deermouse, White-ankled Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus pembertoni Burt, 1932 – Pemberton's deer mouse, Pemberton's Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus perfulvus Osgood, 1945 – Tawny Deermouse, Marsh Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus polionotus (Wagner, 1843) – Oldfield Mouse, Oldfield Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus polius Osgood, 1904 – Chihuahuan Mouse, Chihuahuan Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus pseudocrinitus Burt, 1932 – Coronados Deermouse, False Canyon Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus sagax Elliot, 1903 – Michoacán Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus sejugis Burt, 1932 – Santa Cruz mouse, Santa Cruz Island Mouse, Santa Cruz Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus simulus Osgood, 1904 – Nayarit mouse, Sinaloan Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus slevini Mailliard, 1924 – Catalina Deermouse, Slevin's Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus spicilegus J. A. Allen, 1897 – Gleaning Mouse, Gleaning Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus stephani Townsend, 1912 – San Esteban Deermouse, San Esteban Island Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus stirtoni Dickey, 1928 – Stirton's deer mouse, Stirton's Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus truei (Shufeldt, 1885) – piñon mouse, Pinyon Mouse, Ratón piñonero, Piñon Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus winkelmanni Carleton, 1977 – Winkelmann's mouse, Coalcomán Deermouse, Forest Mouse
	Species	Peromyscus yucatanicus J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1897 – Yucatan deer mouse, Yucatán Deermouse
	Species	Peromyscus zarhynchus Merriam, 1898 – Chiapan deer mouse, Chiapan Deermouse

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

	Expert:	Guy G. Musser
	Notes:	Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

	Expert:	Michael D. Carleton
	Notes:	Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Hall, E. Raymond
	Publication Date:	1981
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	The Mammals of North America, 2nd ed., vol. 2
	Page(s):	601-1175
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-05443-5
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Peromyscus, White-footed Mice [English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:	Superfamily Muroidea
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
	Page(s):	894-1531
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Peromyscus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: Reithrodontomyini. The Drosophila of North American mammalogy - the alpha-level classification of the genus has been revised three times (Osgood, 1909; Hooper, 1968; Carleton, 1989) and its biology and evolution have been twice monographed (King, 1968; Kirkland and Layne, 1989). Multispecies surveys have broadly sampled morphology of the genus (Carleton, 1973, 1980; Hooper, 1957, 1958; Hooper and Musser, 1964b; Linzey and Layne, 1969, 1974), its karyology (Robbins and Baker, 1981;L. W. Robbin...

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