Peromyscus levipes Merriam, 1898

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 levipes Merriam, 1898 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:123.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Tlaxcala, Mount Malinche, 8400 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico —from E Nayarit to C Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, south through mountains of Oaxaca and Chiapas —to highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

SYNONYMS: ambiguus, beatae , sacarensis, sagax .

COMMENTS: Systematic studies have confirmed sympatry of P. boylii rowleyi and P. levipes in Queretaro and Hidalgo and supported its elevation to species ( Houseal et al., 1987; Rennert and Kilpatrick, 1987; Schmidly et al., 1988). The taxon baetae was provisionally retained by Carleton (1989) under P. levipes , whereas Schmidly et al. (1988) viewed it as a cryptic species distinct from P. levipes (including ambiguus— but see Bradley et al., 1989). The status and distributional extent of these taxa and other chromosomal forms deserve attention (see Bradley et al., 1989; Houseal et al., 1987; Smith et al., 1989). P. boylii species group.