Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 732

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).