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Title: Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies

Author: Ticul Alvarez

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 7, pp. 111-120, 1 fig.

December 29, 1961

Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The
Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico,
With Description of a New Subspecies

BY

TICUL ALVAREZ

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 14, No. 7, pp. 111-120, 1 fig.
Published December 29, 1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1961

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Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern
Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies

BY

TICUL ALVAREZ

Saussure (1860) described _Peromyscus aztecus_ from southern Mexico.
Osgood (1909) by comparison of one of Saussure's specimens with some
from Mirador, Veracruz, concluded that _aztecus_ was a subspecies of _P.
boylii_. Dalquest (1953) incorrectly reported specimens of _P. boylii_
from San Luis Potosi as _P. b. aztecus_. Merriam (1898) named
_Peromyscus levipes_ from Mt. Malinche,