Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853)

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 : 730

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scientific name	Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853)
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Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853) . Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6:411.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Georgia, Liberty Co., near Riceboro, probably Le Conte Plantation .

DISTRIBUTION: SE USA, from SE Oklahoma, extreme S Illinois and SE Virginia, south to Gulf of Mexico and peninsular Florida.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as P. g. allapaticola.

SYNONYMS: allapaticola, anastasae , cognatus , insulanus , nigriculus , megacephalus , mississippiensis, palmarius, restrictus, telmaphilus.

COMMENTS: Hybridization in lab with P. leucopus ( Bradshaw, 1968) , but differentiation of P. gossypinus in field is well documented (Engstrom et al., 1982; Price and Kennedy, 1980; L. W. Robbins et al., 1985). See Wolfe and Linzey (1977, Mammalian Species, 70). P. leucopus species group.