| [Edit]
The genus Peromyscus, contains species commonly referred to as deer mice., This is a genus of New World mouse only distantly related to the common house mouse, Mus musculus. The most common species of deer mouse in the continental United States are two closely related species, P. maniculatus, and P. leucopus.
The genus Peromyscus has been an important model in the studies of phylogeography, speciation, chromosomes, genetics, and evolution in general. In recent years, it has become notorious in the western United States as a carrier of the hantavirus.
RELATED: There is a different mammal by the name of "Mouse Deer," a relatively primitive ungulate of minuscule size.
Peromyscus
Species
| | Name | Peromyscus | | Fossil Range | Late Miocene - Recent | | image |  | | Regnum | Animalia | | Phylum | Chordate | | Classis | Mammalia | | Ordo | Rodentia | | Superfamilia | Muroidea | | Familia | Muroidea | | Subfamilia | Neotominae | | Genus | Peromyscus | | Genus Authority | Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger | | Subdivision Ranks | species | | Subdivision | species |
| |
top
Species
Peromyscus guardia guardia - last seen 1991
Peromyscus guardia mejiae - extinct (1973)
Peromyscus guardia harbisoni - extinct (1963)
Peromyscus guardia subsp. indet. from Estanque Island - extinct (1998)
Peromyscus polionotus allophrys
Peromyscus polionotus ammobates
Peromyscus polionotus leucocephalus
Peromyscus polionotus niveiventris
Peromyscus polionotus peninsularis
Peromyscus polionotus phasma
Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis
|
|
