Ochrotomys Osgood, 1909

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 : 715

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scientific name	Ochrotomys Osgood, 1909
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Ochrotomys Osgood, 1909 . N. Am. Fauna, 28:222.

TYPE SPECIES: Arvicola nuttalli Harlan, 1832 .

COMMENTS: Although diagnosed as a subgenus of Peromyscus , the distant kinship and generic segregation of Ochrotomys have been repeatedly sustained ( Blair, 1942; Carleton, 1980; Hooper and Musser, 1964b; Patton and Hsu, 1967). A peromyscine, but this conventional placement has been questioned (see Engstrom and Bickham, 1982; Carleton, 1989:115).