Megadontomys cryophilus (Musser, 1964)

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 : 707

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scientific name	Megadontomys cryophilus (Musser, 1964)
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Megadontomys cryophilus (Musser, 1964) . Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 636:13.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Oaxaca, Distrito de Ixtlan, 13 mi NE Llano de las Flores, south slope Cerro Pelon, 9200 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra de Juarez, NC Oaxaca, Mexico.

COMMENTS: Named as a subspecies of Peromyscus thomasi . Citing morphological traits and genetic differentiation reported by Werbitsky and Kilpatrick (1987), Carleton (1989) arranged cryophilus as a species.