Peromyscus maniculatus

• Main Authors: Bradley, Robert D., Francis, James Q., Platt II, Roy N., Soniat, Taylor J., Alvarez, Daysi, Lindsey, Laramie L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Cricetidae; Peromyscus; Peromyscus maniculatus; Nain
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7221924; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B252847FFFACFFA8FC1F3F6145C6FD81

Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner) Hesperomys maniculatus Wagner, 1845:148. H[esperomys ] gracilis Le Conte, 1855:442. [ Hesperomys ] arcticus Coues, 1877:61,67. Sitomys americanus canadensis Miller, 1893:55. Peromyscus leucopus nubiterrae Rhoads, 1896:187. Peromyscus canadensis abietorium Bangs, 1896:49. Peromyscus canadensis umbrinus Miller, 1897:23. Peromyscus maniculatus Bangs, 1898a:496. Peromyscus canadensis argentatus Copeland and Church, 1906:122. Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis Osgood, 1909:42. Peromyscus maniculatus abietorium Osgood, 1909:45. Peromyscus maniculatus argentatus Osgood, 1909:46. Peromyscus maniculatus eremus Osgood, 1909:47. Peromyscus maniculatus nubiterrae Osgood, 1909:47. Peromyscus maniculatus anticostiensis Moulthrop, 1937:11. Peromyscus maniculatus plumbeus C. F. Jackson, 1939:101. Holotype.— Osgood (1909) reported that the type specimen resided in the Zoologischer Staatssammlung in Munich, although no catalog number or ancillary data was provided. Specimens from the vicinity of Nain have been used for type location (Osgood 1909). Presumably collected by Wagner. Type locality.— The exact type locality is not known; however, the Moravian settlements in Labrador, specimens from Nain have been used as the type location based on the interpretations of Osgood (1909). Subspecies.— Although we were not able to examine all of the recognized subspecies that potentially are referable to P . maniculatus , we tentatively assign the following nine subspecies recognized in Hall (1981) to P . maniculatus : abietorium , anticostiensis , argentatus , bairdi , eremus , gracilis , maniculatus , nubiterrae , and plumbeus . Diagnosis.— Size is large for species group; measurements obtained from Osgood (1909), for several of the subspecies now assigned to P . maniculatus , indicated a total length averaging 187 mm; (range 174–200 mm) and tail length averaging 91.5 mm (range 79–104 mm). Coloration is based on synopsis of Osgood’s (1909) observations of several subspecies - back and sides are dark brown and ...