Peromyscus nasutus

Peromyscus nasutus (J. A. Allen, 1891). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3:229. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Colorado, Latimer Co., Estes Park. DISTRIBUTION: C Colorado and SE Utah, south through New Mexico and Transpecos, Texas, USA, to NW Coahuila, Mexico. SYNONYMS: griseus, penicillatus. COMMENTS: Considered a distinct species (Osgood, 1909) until synonymized under P. difficilis by Hoffmeister and de la Torre (1961). Recognized as a sibling species separate from P. difficilis by Zimmerman et al. (1975, 1978). Includes penicillatus, which Osgood (1909) had misclassified under P. boylii (see Diersing, 1976). P. truei species group.Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 734, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735309