| Carleton's deer mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Neotominae |
| Genus: | Peromyscus |
| Species: | P. carletoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Peromyscus carletoni Bradley et al., 2014 | |
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. Based on DNA sequence data, the species is most closely related to Peromyscus levipes.
References
- Bradley, Robert D.; Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté; Sotero-Caio, Cibele G.; Huynh, Howard M.; Kilpatrick, C. William; Iñiguez-Dávalos, L. Ignacio; Schmidly, David James (2014). "Morphometric, karyotypic, and molecular evidence for a new species of Peromyscus (Cricetidae: Neotominae) from Nayarit, Mexico". Journal of Mammalogy. 95 (1): 176–186. doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-217.
- León-Tapia, M. Ángel; Rico, Yessica; Fernández, Jesús A.; Espinosa de los Monteros, Alejandro (2022). "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): 1–19. doi:10.1080/14772000.2022.2127966.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Peromyscus carletoni | |
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