Peromyscus guardia guardia Townsend, 1912:126
Ángel de la Guarda deer mouse, Angel Island mouse
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Peromyscus guardia Townsend, 1912:126
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1991 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Ángel de la Guarda Island, Gulf of California, México
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Townsend, Charles Haskins. (1912). Mammals collected by the 'Albatross' expedition in lower California in 1911, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31: 117-130 + 2 pls.
Other references:
Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul and Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo. (2003). Current status of rodents on islands in the Gulf of California. Biological Conservation 109(2): 157-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00121-0
Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Castro-Arellano, I., Lacher, T. & Vázquez, E. (2008). Peromyscus guardia. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 January 2012.
Banks, R. C. (1967). The Peromyscus guardia–interparietalis complex. Journal of Mammalogy 48: 210-218. [Abstract]
Blázquez, Ma Carmen et al. (2018). Stable isotope analyses suggest Mus musculus occupies the place of the “possibly extinct” Peromyscus guardia in Angel de la Guarda Island, (Mexico). Mammal Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-018-0382-0 [Abstract]
Brand, L. R. and Ryckman, R. E. (1969). Biosystematics of Peromyscus eremicus, P. guardia and P. interparietalis. Journal of Mammalogy 50: 501–513.
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
Mellink, E., Ceballos, G. and Luevano, J. (2002). Population demise and extinction threat of the Angel de la Guarda deer mouse (Peromyscus guarda). Biological Conservation 108: 107-111.
Rios, E. and Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T. (2011). Peromyscus guardia (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Mammalian Species 43(885):172-176.
Vázquez-Domínguez, E., Ceballos, G. and Cruzado, J. (2004). Extirpation of an insular subspecies by a single introduced cat: the case of the endemic deer mouse Peromyscus guardia on Estanque Island, Mexico. Oryx 38: 347-350. [Abstract]
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