Peromyscus avius

Osgood, 1909

Cerralvo Island 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

Osgood, W.H. 1909-04-17. A revision of the mice of the American genus Peromyscus. North American Fauna 28:1-285.

Original name as described

Peromyscus eremicus avius

Type material

USNM:MAMM:147024

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Ceralbo Island (= Cerralvo Island), Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Mexico

Taxonomy notes

split from P. eremicus

Taxonomy notes citation

Cornejo-Latorre, C., Cortés-Calva, P., & Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T. (2017). The evolutionary history of the subgenus Haplomylomys (Cricetidae: Peromyscus). Journal of Mammalogy, 98(6), 1627-1640.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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