Peromyscus polius Osgood 1904

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1076

Peromyscus polius Osgood 1904

Peromyscus polius Osgood 1904 , Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 17: 61.

Type Locality: México, Chihuahua, Colonia García.

Vernacular Names: Chihuahuan Deermouse.

Distribution: WC Chihuahua, México.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Species group indeterminate. A distinctive species of enigmatic relationships: initially placed with the truei group ( Osgood, 1909) but provisionally reassigned to the boylii group by Hoffmeister (1951; also see Bradley and Schmidly, 1987, and commentary by Anderson, 1972:348). Allozymic distance data weakly support the latter association (Bradley et al., 1996; Kilpatrick and Zimmerman, 1975; Schmidly et al., 1985), but mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b) interpretations of its kinship are inconclusive ( Tiemann-Boege et al., 2000).