An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, México — John Shaqi
An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, MéxicoHall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, México
Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Mammals -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
_Remarks._--Most measurements show a sexual dimorphism in this
subspecies. Adult males are 15 per cent larger in external
measurements except that the foot is approximately the same. Cranial
measurements average approximately 5 per cent larger in males except
that the breadth of the rostrum and length of the maxillary tooth-row
are slightly less. South and east of Tacámbaro our specimens all were
taken in dry semitropical country, where bananas and sugar cane were
the principal crops grown. This subspecies has been recorded also from
La Huacana, Michoacán, as well as from La Salada, the type locality,
by Goldman (1911:39).
=Liomys irroratus jaliscensis= (Allen)
Northern Spiny Pocket Mouse; Spanish, Ratón Norteño
_Heteromys jaliscensis_ Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
22:251, July 25, 1906, type from Las Canoas, approximately
20 mi. W Zapotlán, 7,000 ft., Jalisco.
_Liomys irroratus jalicensis_, Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 34:60,
September 7, 1911.
_Range._--Northwestern part of state.
_Specimens examined_, 3: nos. 120273-120275 (U. S. Nat. Mus.) from
Zamora.
_Remarks._--As explained in detail by Hall and Villa (1948:254) these
specimens from Zamora are intergrades between _L. i. jaliscensis_
and _L. i. acutus_ and with almost equal propriety could be referred
to either subspecies.
=Liomys irroratus acutus= Hall and Villa
Northern Spiny Pocket Mouse; Spanish, Ratón Norteño
_Liomys irroratus acutus_ Hall and Villa, Univ. Kansas Publ.,
Mus. Nat. Hist., 1:253, figs. 4-6, July 26, 1948, type from
2 mi. W Pátzcuaro, 7,700 ft., Michoacán.
_Liomys irroratus alleni_, Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 34:57,
September 7, 1911, part.
_Range._--Pátzcuaro and vicinity.
_Specimens examined_, 16: nos. 100170-100184 and 50356 (U. S. N. M.),
distributed, with reference to Pátzcuaro, as follows: 3 mi. NW, 6,700
ft., 1; 2 mi. W, 7,700 ft., 5; 2 mi. W, 6,700 ft., 2; Pátzcuaro
itself, 1; 5 mi. S, 7,800 ft., 7.
_Remarks._--None of the eight females contained embryos. Two adult
males weigh, in grams, 71.5 and 65.1; the average and extreme weights
for five adult females are 50.8 (44.8-61.8).
=Liomys irroratus alleni= (Coues)
Northern Spiny Pocket Mouse; Spanish, Ratón Norteño
_Heteromys alleni_ Coues, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 8:187,
March, 1881, type from Río Verde, San Luis Potosí, México.
_Liomys irroratus alleni_ Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 34:56,
September 7, 1911.
_Range._--Northeastern part of state.
_Specimens examined_, 5: nos. 50325-50329 (U. S. Nat. Mus.) from
Queréndaro.
_Remarks._--The specimens from Queréndaro are not typical of the
subspecies _L. i. alleni_ in that the shape of the interparietal bone
and width of the basisphenoid bone are almost exactly intermediate
between the conditions obtaining in typical _L. i. alleni_ and
topotypes of _L. i. acutus_.
=Reithrodontomys megalotis saturatus= Allen and Chapman
Western Harvest Mouse; Spanish, Ratón Orejudo
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