Biology:Northern Baja deer mouse

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Short description: Species of rodent

Northern Baja deer mouse
Peromyscus fraterculus.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Peromyscus
Species:
P. fraterculus
Binomial name
Peromyscus fraterculus
(Miller, 1892)
Synonyms
  • Vesperimus fraterculus Miller, 1892
  • Sitomys herronii Rhodes, 1893
  • Peromyscus eremicus propinquus Allen, 1898
  • Peromyscus homochroia Elliot, 1903

The Northern Baja deer mouse (Peromyscus fraterculus) is a species of deer mouse native to Southern California and the Baja California peninsula as well as several islands in the Gulf of California. P. fraterculus was previously considered a subspecies of the cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus) prior to a 2000 study which identified genetic differences and suggested P. fraterculus is more closely related to Eva's desert mouse (P. eva) than to P. eremicus.[2]

References

  1. Timm, R.; Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Lacher, T (2008). "Peromyscus fraterculus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/136412/0. Retrieved 24 June 2015. 
  2. Riddle, Brett R.; Hafner, David J.; Alexander, Lois F. (2000). "Phylogeography and systematics of the Peromyscus eremicus species group and the historical biogeography of North American warm regional deserts". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17 (2): 145–160. doi:10.1006/mpev.2000.0841. PMID 11083930. https://faculty.unlv.edu/riddle/pdf/Riddle_etal_2000b.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2578667 entry