A New Pocket Gopher (Thomomys) and A New Spiny Pocket Mouse (Liomys) from Michoacán, MexicoHall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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A New Pocket Gopher (Thomomys) and A New Spiny Pocket Mouse (Liomys) from Michoacán, Mexico
Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Pocket gophers; Pocket mice
_Measurements._--The measurements of two males, Nos. 100184,
100182, and average and extreme measurements of five females,
are, respectively, as follows: Total length, 257, 267, 244
(230-251); length of tail, 130, 128, 122 (105-129); length of
hind foot, 32, 31, 31 (30-33); length of ear from notch, 16, 17,
15.3 (13.0-19); weight in grams, 71.5, 65.1, 50.8 (44.8-61.8);
greatest length of skull, 35.2, 34.9, 33.6 (32.7-34.2);
zygomatic breadth, 17.7, 17.5, 16.5 (16.1-17.1); interorbital
breadth, 8.4, 8.1, 7.8 (7.5-8.0); length of nasals, 15.1, 14.9,
14.0 (13.3-14.5); width of braincase, 15.9, 15.1, 15.0
(14.7-15.1); alveolar length of upper molariform tooth-row, 6.0,
6.0, 5.6 (5.5-5.9). The measurements were taken according to the
method of Goldman (N. Amer. Fauna, 34:10, 1911). Each of the
specimens of which measurements are given above is adult; the
transverse enamel fold has been obliterated in M1, is
represented by only an isolated lake in M2 (except in one female
where all trace of the fold has worn away) and is present in M3.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 16, all from Michoacan, Mexico,
and unless otherwise indicated in the University of California
Museum of Vertebrate Zooelogy, as follows: 3 mi. NW Patzcuaro,
6700 ft., 1; 2 mi. W Patzcuaro, 7700 ft., 5; 2 mi. W Patzcuaro,
6700 ft., 2; Patzcuaro, 1 (U. S. Nat. Mus.); 5 mi. S Patzcuaro,
7800 ft., 7.
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For the loan of comparative materials we are grateful to Dr. Harold E.
Anthony of the American Museum of Natural History, Mr. Stanley P. Young
and Dr. Hartley H. T. Jackson of the Biological Surveys Collection in
the United States National Museum, Dr. Charles P. Lyman of the Museum of
Comparative Zooelogy, and for assistance with the field work to the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and to Miss Annie M. Alexander.
_Transmitted April 1, 1948._
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