Peromyscus guardia Townsend 1912

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 : 1068

Peromyscus guardia Townsend 1912

Peromyscus guardia Townsend 1912 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 31: 126.

Type Locality: México, Baja California Norte, Ángel de la Guarda Isl, 29°33'N, 113°35'W.

Vernacular Names: La Guarda Deermouse.

Synonyms: Peromyscus harbisoni Banks 1967 ; Peromyscus mejiae Burt 1932 .

Distribution: Isls of Ángel de la Guarda, Granito, and Mejía, N Gulf of California, México.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: P. eremicus species group. Status and relationships with respect to P. eremicus and P. interparietalis illuminated by Brand and Ryckman (1969), Lawlor (1971 a), and Avise et al. (1974); also see remarks on those studies by Hafner et al. (2001:785). Formerly included P. interparietalis (see Banks, 1967, and Lawlor, 1971 a). Extinction or critical endangerment of various island populations, principally due to domestic cat introduction, evaluated by Mellink et al. (2002) and Alvarez-Castañeda and Ortega-Rubio (2003).