Peromyscus gambelii

(S. F. Baird, 1857)

Gambel's Deermouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Neotominae
Tribe : Peromyscini
Genus : Peromyscus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Baird, S.F. 1857. General Report upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes. Part I. Mammals. A. P. Nicholson, Washington, 757 pp.

Original name as described

Hesperomys gambelii

Type material

USNM:MAMM:A1283 (= USNM:MAMM:369)

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Monterey, Monterey County, California, USA.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States · Mexico

Subregion distribution

USA(NV,CA,AZ)

Taxonomy notes

split from P. maniculatus

Taxonomy notes citation

Bradley, R. D., Francis, J. Q., Platt II, R. N., Soniat, T. J., Alvarez, D., & Lindsey, L. L. (2019). Mitochondrial DNA sequence data indicate evidence for multiple species within Peromyscus maniculatus. Museum of Texas Tech University. · Greenbaum, I. F., Chirhart, S. E., Walker, M. L., & Honeycutt, R. L. (2017). Molecular phylogenetics of western deer mice (Peromyscus): Taxonomic and biogeographic implications. The Southwestern Naturalist, 62(2), 129-137.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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