Peromyscus melanotis

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: This species is found mainly in rocky habitats within mesic deciduous and coniferous forests . It iis found throughout the pine-fir zone and intermixed grasslands in high mountains.

This species is noctural and omnivorous (Alvarez-Castañeda 2005). The home range for the species was aproximately 410 m2. Mean litter size is 3.7 to 3.8 embryos (Baker 1956; Davis 1944), with a maximum of 5 embryos. Pregnant females have been recorded in January, April, May, July, August, and November; lactating females have been reported only in November; and juveniles in June and July. One fertile cross between Peromyscus melanotis and P. maniculatus produced a litter of males, which were fertile when backcrossed to females of P. maniculatus (Clark 1966), but another similar mating failed to produce offspring. Of 137 interspecific crosses between P. melanotis and P. maniculatus, none produced offspring (Bowers 1974).[1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jun-2004

Taxonomic placement of Arizona populations uncertain. Hoffmeister (1986) assigned them to P. maniculatus, but they appear as P. melanotis in Musser and Carleton (1993, 2005).[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Peromyscus

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P. attwateri (Texas Deermouse) · P. aztecus (Aztec Mouse) · P. aztecus aztecus (Aztec Mouse) · P. banderanus (Black Rockcod) · P. beatae (Orizaba Deermouse) · P. boylii (Brush Mouse) · P. boylii boylii (Brush Mouse) · P. boylii utahensis (Brush Mouse) · P. bullatus (Perote Deer Mouse) · P. californicus (California Mouse) · P. californicus californicus (California Mouse) · P. caniceps (Monserrat Island Deermouse) · P. crinitus (Canyon Mouse) · P. crinitus eremicus (Cactus Mouse) · P. dickeyi (Dickeys Deermouse) · P. difficilis (Zacatecan Deer Mouse) · P. difficilis difficilis (Zacatecan Deer Mouse) · P. eremicus (Cactus Mouse) · P. eremicus eremicus (Baja Mouse) · P. eva (Eva's Desert Mouse) · P. fraterculus (Northern Baja Deermouse) · P. furvus (Blackish Deer Mouse) · P. gossypinus (Cotton Deermouse) · P. gossypinus allapaticola (Cotton Mouse) · P. gossypinus gossypinus (Cotton Mouse) · P. gossypinus restrictus (Chadwick Beach Cotton Mouse) · P. grandis (Large Deer Mouse) · P. gratus (Merriam's Piñon Mouse) · P. gratus gratus (Merriam's Piñon Mouse) · P. guardia (Angel Island Mouse) · P. guatemalensis (Guatamalan Deer Mouse) · P. gymnotis (Naked-Eared Deer Mouse) · P. hooperi (Hooper's Deer Mouse) · P. hylocetes (Transvolcanic Deermouse) · P. interparietalis (San Lorenzo Deermouse) · P. keeni (Northwestern Deermouse) · P. leucopus (White-Footed Deermouse) · P. leucopus ammodytes (Monomoy Mouse) · P. leucopus easti (Pungo Mouse) · P. leucopus fusus (Martha's Vineyard Mouse) · P. leucopus leucopus (Deer Mouse) · P. levipes (Nimble-Footed Deer Mouse) · P. levipes levipes (Nimble-Footed Mouse) · P. madrensis (Tres Marias Deer Mouse) · P. maniculatus (Anacapa Island Deer Mouse) · P. maniculatus anacapae (Anacapa Deer Mouse) · P. maniculatus clementis (San Clemente Deer Mouse) · P. maniculatus maniculatus (Deer Mouse) · P. maniculatus nebrascensis (Deer Mouse) · P. mayensis (Mayan Deer Mouse) · P. megalops (Broad-Faced Deer Mouse) · P. mekisturus (Puebla Deer Mouse) · P. melanocarpus (Black-Wristed Deer Mouse) · P. melanophrys (Plateau Deer Mouse) · P. melanophrys melanophrys (Plateau Mouse) · P. melanotis (Black-Eared Mouse) · P. melanurus (Black-Tailed Deer Mouse) · P. merriami (Merriam's Mouse) · P. mexicanus (Mexican Deer Mouse) · P. mexicanus mexicanus (Mexican Deer Mouse) · P. nasutus (Northern Rock Mouse) · P. nasutus nasutus (Northern Rock Mouse) · P. ochraventer (El Carrizo Deer Mouse) · P. oreas (Columbian Mouse) · P. pectoralis (White-Ankled Mouse) · P. pectoralis pectoralis (White-Ankled Mouse) · P. pembertoni (Pemberton's Deer Mouse) · P. perfulvus (Tawny Deer Mouse) · P. polionotus (Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus allophrys (Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus ammobates (Alabama Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus decoloratus (Pallid Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus leucocephalus (Santa Rosa Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus niveiventris (Oldfield Mouse) · P. polionotus peninsularis (St Andrews Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus phasma (Anastasia Beach Mouse) · P. polionotus polionotus (Oldfield Mouse) · P. polionotus subgriseus (Oldfield Mouse) · P. polionotus trissyllepsis (Perdido Key Beach Mouse) · P. polius (Chihuahuan Deer Mouse) · P. pseudocrinitus (Coronados Deer Mouse) · P. sagax (Michoacan Deer Mouse) · P. schmidlyi (Schmidly's Deer Mouse) · P. sejugis (Santa Cruz Mouse) · P. simulus (Nayarit Deer Mouse) · P. sitkensis (Sitka Mouse) · P. slevini (Catalina Deer Mouse) · P. spicilegus (Gleaning Deer Mouse) · P. spicilegus spicilegus (Gleaning Mouse) · P. stephani (San Esteban Deermouse) · P. stirtoni (Stirton's Deer Mouse) · P. truei (Piñon Mouse) · P. truei comanche (Palo Duro Mouse) · P. truei truei (Pinyon Mouse) · P. winkelmanni (Coalcolman Deer Mouse) · P. yucatanicus (Yucatan Deer Mouse) · P. zarhynchus (Chiapan Deer Mouse)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. 1907 8 Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1907. url p. 240, p. 639.
• A check list of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas. Chicago, 1905. url p. 161, p. 161, p. 663.
• Biology of New World Microtus / edited by Robert H. Tamarin. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists1985. url p. 482.
• Biology of Peromyscus (Rodentia) / Edited by John A. King. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists, 1968. url p. 112, p. 116, p. 271, p. 285, p. 46.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 141, p. 152, p. 328, p. 334, p. 488, p. 573, p. 588, p. 608, p. 870, p. 877.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 203.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 131 1964 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url fig. 9, page 54.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 21.
• Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among broad-clawed shrews of the Cryptotis goldmani-group (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) / Neal Woodman, Robert M. Timm. 91 1999 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1999. url p. 22.
• List of North American land mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911; by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1912. url p. 152.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1969 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url fig. 11, page 200, fig. 16, page 214, p. 219.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url , p. 109, p. 110, p. 193.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 515, p. 525, p. 59, p. 59, p. 7, p. 73.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 483.
• Publication. Field Columbian Museum. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1895-1909. url p. 161, p. 172, p. 179, p. 663, p. 807, p. 807.
• Readings in mammalogy / selected from the original literature and introduced with comments by J. Knox Jones, Jr., and Sydney Anderson. [Lawrence, Kans.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1970. url p. 297.
• Selected readings in mammalogy: selected from the original literature and introduced with comments / by J. Knox Jones, Jr., Sydney Anderson, and Robert S. Hoffmann. Lawrence, Kan.: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1976. url p. 304, p. 84, p. 86, p. 88, p. 89, p. 90, p. 91.
• Siphonaptera from Central America and Mexico; a morphologyical study of the aedeagus, with descriptions of new genera and species. 1 1950 Chicago, Natural History Museum, 1950. url p. 31, p. 70, p. 79.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 115 1951 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 399.
• Systematic results of the study of North American land mammals to the close of the year 1900, by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., and James A. G. Rehn. Boston, Society of Natural History, 1901. url p. 79, p. 79.
• The families and genera of living rodents / by J.R. Ellerman; with a list of named forms (1758-1936) by R.W. Hayman and G.W.C.Holt. London: British Museum, 1941. url p. 393.
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• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 9 1956 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 140, p. 147, p. 167, p. 189, p. 205, p. 206, p. 254, fig. 47, page 265, fig. 48, page 266, p. 302, p. 305, p. 315, p. 330, p. 390, p. 440, p. 464.

Notes

Contributors

• Baillie, J. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Baillie, J. 1996. Peromyscus melanotis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 12, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 13 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I., Lacher, T. & Vázquez, E. 2008. Peromyscus melanotis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 12, 2008:

• Burke Museum: Mammal Specimens
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Colección de Mamíferos de la Sierra Volcánica Transversal de México (UAM-I)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Colección de Mamíferos de Nuevo León, México (UANL)
• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science: Mammal specimens
• Michigan State University Museum: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU): Mammal specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNMA/Coleccion Nacional de Mamiferos
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: MSB Mammals Specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Mammal specimens
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 109874
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-180287
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 180287
• IUCN ID: 231328
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7306

Footnotes

1. Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I., Lacher, T. & Vázquez, E. 2008. Peromyscus melanotis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]

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