Peromyscus gymnotis Thomas, 1894 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14:365.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Guatemala."

DISTRIBUTION: Pacific coastal plain and adjacent foothills from S Chiapas, Mexico, to S Nicaragua, west of Lake Nicaragua.

SYNONYMS: allophylus .

COMMENTS: Formerly classified as a subspecies of P. mexicanus (Osgood, 1909); Musser (1971a) elevated gymnotis to species and pointed out the junior status of allophylus . Differentiation from P. mexicanus sustained by Huckaby (1980) and Jones and Yates (1983), who also amplified the range and morphological recognition of P. gymnotis . P. mexicanus species group.