Carleton's deer mouse
| Carleton's deer mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Peromyscus |
| Species: | P. carletoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Peromyscus carletoni Bradley et al., 2014
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Carleton's deer mouse (Peromyscus carletoni) is a species of deermouse in the family Cricetidae. It is restricted to high-elevation pine-oak forests in Nayarit in western Mexico. A member of the Peromyscus boylii group, it was named as a species in 2014 and named after Peromyscus specialist Michael D. Carleton. It is a medium-sized species for the genus, with the tail a little longer than the head-body length. In the skull, the rostrum, the front part of the skull, is relatively short compared to related species, but the nasal bones are long relative to the rostrum.[1] Based on DNA sequence data, the species is most closely related to Peromyscus levipes.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bradley, Robert D.; Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté; Sotero-Caio, Cibele G.; Huynh, Howard M.; Kilpatrick, C. William; Iñiguez-Dávalos, L. Ignacio; Schmidly, David James (2014). "Morphometric, karyotypic, and molecular evidence for a new species of Peromyscus (Cricetidae: Neotominae) from Nayarit, Mexico". Journal of Mammalogy. 95 (1): 176–186. doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-217.
- ^ León-Tapia, M. Ángel; Rico, Yessica; Fernández, Jesús A.; Espinosa de los Monteros, Alejandro (2022). "Molecular, morphometric, and spatial data analyses provide new insights into the evolutionary history of the Peromyscus boylii species complex (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in the mountains of Mexico". Systematics and Biodiversity. 20 (2127966): 1–19. doi:10.1080/14772000.2022.2127966.
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