Peromyscus sagax Elliot 1903

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 : 1077

Peromyscus sagax Elliot 1903

Peromyscus sagax Elliot 1903 , Field Columb. Mus . Publ., Zool. Ser., 3: 142.

Type Locality: México, Michoacán, La Palma.

Vernacular Names: Michoacan Deermouse.

Distribution: NC Michoacán, México; limits uncertain.

Discussion: Species group indeterminate. Recognition long obscured as a full synonym first of P. truei gratus ( Osgood, 1909) and later of P. boylii levipes (Hoffmeister, 1946) , but morphometric, karyotypic, and electrophoretic information demonstrates the form’s specific separation from P. boylii , P. levipes , and P. gratus (Bradley et al., 1996) . Gene-sequence data indicate that P. sagax is as much differentiated from the boylii complex as from the aztecus and truei species groups ( Tiemann-Boege et al., 2000).