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.