Osgoodomys Hooper and Musser, 1964 . Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 635:12.

TYPE SPECIES: Peromyscus banderanus J. A. Allen, 1897 .

COMMENTS: Peromyscine. Diagnosed as a subgenus of Peromyscus by Hooper and Musser (1964b) and retained there by Hooper (1968b); proposed as a distinct genus by Carleton (1980). Anatomy of male reproductive system detailed by Linzey and Layne (1969, 1974). Karyological relationships assessed by Rogers et al. (1984) and genetic similarity by Schmidly et al. (1985).