Carleton's deer mouse explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Bradley . Robert D. . Ordóñez-Garza . Nicté . Sotero-Caio . Cibele G. . Huynh . Howard M. . Kilpatrick . C. William . Iñiguez-Dávalos . L. Ignacio . Schmidly . David James . 2014 . 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-217 . 176–186 . Morphometric, karyotypic, and molecular evidence for a new species of Peromyscus (Cricetidae: Neotominae) from Nayarit, Mexico . Journal of Mammalogy . 95 . 1.
2. León-Tapia . M. Ángel . Rico . Yessica . Fernández . Jesús A. . Espinosa de los Monteros . Alejandro . 2022 . 10.1080/14772000.2022.2127966 . 1–19 . 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.