Peromyscus attwateri J. A. Allen 1895

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 : 1063

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Peromyscus attwateri J. A. Allen 1895 View in CoL

Peromyscus attwateri J. A. Allen 1895 View in CoL , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 7: 330.

Type Locality: USA, Texas, Kerr Co., Turtle Creek.

Vernacular Names: Texas Deermouse.

Synonyms: Peromyscus bellus Bangs 1896 ; Peromyscus cansensis Long 1961 ; Peromyscus laceyi Bailey 1905 .

Distribution: Edwards Plateau (see Goetze, 1998) and E Llano Estacado (see L. Choate, 1997) of C and N Texas, eastwards through SW and E Oklahoma, to SE Kansas, SW Missouri, and NW Arkansas, USA.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: P. truei species group. Cognate relationship to P. difficilis (and nasutus ) suggested by allozymic data ( Janecek, 1990; Sullivan et al. 1991), a relationship bolstered by restriction-site ( DeWalt et al., 1993 b) and gene-sequence analyses ( Tiemann-Boege et al., 2000) of mitochondrial DNA. Classified as a geographic race of P. boylii ( Osgood, 1909) until rediagnosed as a species by Schmidly (1973). Biochemical evolution studied by Kilpatrick (1984); morphometric variation among Arkansas populations evaluated by Sugg et al. (1990). Populations found along the eastern escarpment of the Llano Estacado, N Texas, reidentified as P. attwateri , not P. boylii (L. Choate, 1997) . See Schmidly (1974, Mammalian Species, 48).

References

Choate, L. L. 1997. The mammals of the Llano Estacado. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University, 40: 1 - 240.

DeWalt, T. S., E. G. Zimmerman, and J. V. Planz. 1993 b. Mitochondrial-DNA phylogeny of species of the boylii and truei groups of the genus Peromyscus. Journal of Mammalogy, 74: 352 - 362.

Goetze, J. R. 1998. The mammals of the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University, 41: 263 pp.

Janecek, L. L. 1990. Genic variation in the Peromyscus truei group (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 71: 301 - 308.

Kilpatrick, C. W. 1984. Molecular evolution of the Texas mouse, Peromyscus attwateri. Pp. 87 - 96, in Festschrift for Walter W. Dalquest in honor of his sixty-sixth birthday (N. Horner, ed.). Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, 163 pp.

Osgood, W. H. 1909. Revision of the mice of the American genus Peromyscus. North American Fauna, 28: 1 - 285.

Sugg, D. W., M. L. Kennedy, and G. A. Heidt. 1990. Genetic variation in the Texas mouse, Peromyscus attwateri. Journal of Mammalogy, 71: 309 - 317.

Tiemann-Boege, I., C. W. Kilpatrick, D. J. Schmidly, and R. D. Bradley. 2000. Molecular phylogenetics of the Peromyscus boylii species group (Rodentia: Muridae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 16: 366 - 378.