Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 730

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scientific name	Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853)
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Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte, 1853) . Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6:411.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Georgia, Liberty Co., near Riceboro, probably Le Conte Plantation .

DISTRIBUTION: SE USA, from SE Oklahoma, extreme S Illinois and SE Virginia, south to Gulf of Mexico and peninsular Florida.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as P. g. allapaticola.

SYNONYMS: allapaticola, anastasae , cognatus , insulanus , nigriculus , megacephalus , mississippiensis, palmarius, restrictus, telmaphilus.

COMMENTS: Hybridization in lab with P. leucopus ( Bradshaw, 1968) , but differentiation of P. gossypinus in field is well documented (Engstrom et al., 1982; Price and Kennedy, 1980; L. W. Robbins et al., 1985). See Wolfe and Linzey (1977, Mammalian Species, 70). P. leucopus species group.

References

Bradshaw, W. N. 1968. Progeny from experimental mating tests with mice of the Peromyscus leucopus group. Journal of Mammalogy, 49: 475 - 480.

Price, P. K., and M. L. Kennedy. 1980. Genic relationships in the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, and the cotton mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus. American Midland Naturalist, 103: 73 - 82.

Wolfe, J. L., and A. V. Linzey. 1977. Peromyscus gossypinus. Mammalian Species, 70: 1 - 5.