Peromyscus megalops 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 : 733

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scientific name	Peromyscus megalops Merriam, 1898
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Peromyscus megalops Merriam, 1898 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:119.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Oaxaca, La Cieneguilla ranch, near Santa Maria Ozolotepec, 10,000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico.

SYNONYMS: auritus , complus.

COMMENTS: Following Osgood (1909), Hall (1981) continued to maintain melanurus as a subspecies, a form which Huckaby (1980) documented as a species distinct from P. megalops . Distribution and ecology reviewed by Musser (1964). Carleton (1989) observed Osgood's (1909) earlier arrangement of a megalops species group (including P. melanocarpus and P. melanurus ) apart from the mexicanus species group.