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Peromyscus sitkensis Merriam 1897
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Peromyscus sitkensis Merriam, 1897. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 11:223.
TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, Baranof Island, Sitka.
DISTRIBUTION: Outer islands of Alexander Archipelago, off Alaskan panhandle, USA.
SYNONYMS: oceanicus.
COMMENTS: Banded karyotypes reported by Pengilly et al. (1983). Insular forms off southern British Columbia referred to sitkensis by Thomas (1973) but identified as P. oreas by Gunn and Greenbaum (1986). These studies underscore the need to refine relationships among P. sitkensis, P. oreas, and certain forms of P. maniculatus. P. maniculatus species group.
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 736, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Peromyscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Merriam
- Species
- sitkensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Peromyscus sitkensis Merriam, 1897 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Pengilly, D., G. H. Jarrell, and S. D. MacDonald. 1983. Banded karyotypes of Peromyscus sitkensis from Baranof Island, Alaska. Journal of Mammalogy, 64: 682 - 685.
- Thomas, B. 1973. Evolutionary implications of karyotypic variation in some insular Peromyscus from British Columbia, Canada. Cytologia, 38: 485 - 495.
- Gunn, S. J., and I. F. Greenbaum. 1986. Systematic implications of karyotypic and morphologic variation in mainland Peromyscus from the Pacific northwest. Journal of Mammalogy, 67: 294 - 304.