Peromyscus polionotus (Wagner, 1843) . Arch. Naturgesch., 9, 2:52.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Georgia .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Mississippi to W South Carolina, south through Alabama and Georgia, to W and most of peninsular Florida, USA.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as P. p. allophrys, P. p. ammobates, P. p. phasma, and P. p. trissyllepsis; U.S. ESA - Treatened and IUCN - Indeterminate as P. p. niveiventris .

SYNONYMS: albifrons, allophrys, ammobates, arenarius, baliolus, colemani, decoloratus, griseobracatus, leucocephalus, lucubrans, niveiventris, peninsularis, phasma, rhoadsi, subgriseus, sumneri, trissyllepsis.

COMMENTS: Revised by Osgood (1909). Pleisitocene origination of subspecies hypothesized by Bowen (1968); intraspecific genetic differentiation surveyed by Selander et al. (1971). Relationships assessed by Avise et al. (1979), Rogers et al. (1984), and Stangl and Baker (1984b). P. maniculatus species group.