PRJNA838631
Museomics and the holotype of a critically endangered cricetid rodent provide key evidence of an undescribed genus
We analyzed the holotype and the only other known specimen of P. mekisturus and museum samples from other peromyscine rodents to test the monophyly of the species. Our results confirm the monophyly of P. mekisturus and the hypothesis that this species is an undescribed genus of cricetid rodents that is sister to the genus Reithrodontomys.