Osgoodomys Hooper and Musser 1964

Osgoodomys Hooper and Musser 1964, Occas. Pap. Mus . Zool., Univ. Michigan, 635: 12.

Type Species: Peromyscus banderanus J. A. Allen 1897

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Osgoodomys banderanus (J. A. Allen 1897)

Discussion: Reithrodontomyini. Diagnosed as a subgenus of Peromyscus by Hooper and Musser (1964 b) and retained there by Hooper (1968); proposed as a distinct genus by Carleton (1980). Anatomy of male reproductive system detailed by Linzey and Layne (1969, 1974). Relationships assessed based on chromosomal banding (Rogers et al., 1984), protein electrophoresis (Schmidly et al., 1985), and mitochondrial DNA sequencing (Engel et al., 1998).