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._--There is much variation in size in our animals. The three
largest males weigh, in grams, 67.5, 50.3, 48.9 and corresponding
figures for the two heaviest, nonpregnant, females are 53.5 and 48.3
grams. Of the 14 adult females, only one was recorded as having
embryos; it had two embryos each 24 millimeters in crown to rump
length. Where we trapped among big boulders and among the roots of
trees of the genus _Ficus_, _Peromyscus banderanus vicinior_ was the
only species of the genus taken. _Peromyscus boylii evides_ occurred
in the less tropical vegetation, altitudinally and zonally above _P.
b. vicinior_.
=Peromyscus melanotis= Allen and Chapman
Black-eared Deermouse; Spanish, Ratón Montañero
_Peromyscus melanotis_ Allen and Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus.
Nat. Hist., 9:203, June 16, 1897, type from Las Vigas,
8,000 ft., Veracruz.
_Range._--Higher mountains throughout state.
_Specimens examined_, 33: nos. 51397-51401, 52142-52166, 52172-52174,
from Tancítaro.
_Remarks._--The elevation recorded on the label of one specimen is
9,000 feet and on the labels of other specimens is no lower than
10,500 feet and on some is as high as 12,000 feet. The elevation of
capture is not recorded for two specimens. Osgood (1909:112)
previously recorded the species from 12,000 feet elevation on Mount
Tancítaro.
=Oryzomys couesi regillus= Goldman
Tropical Rice Rat; Spanish, Rata Arrocera Tropical; Tarascan word for
rat is Jeyáquihuiri (Hayakewire), or Sarisi
_Oryzomys couesi regillus_ Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 28:129, June 29, 1915, type from Los Reyes,
Michoacán; Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 43:37, September 23, 1918.
_Range._--Plateau region of Northeast Michoacán.
_Specimens examined_, 22: nos. 100601-100622, distributed by
localities as follows: 1 mi. N Zamora, 5,450 ft., 2; 4 mi. W Zamora,
5,450 ft., 1; 4 mi. S Pátzcuaro, 7,800 ft., 1; 1 mi. E and 6 mi. S
Tacámbaro, 4,000 ft., 18.
_Remarks._--The tooth-row is longest in the specimens from Zamora,
shortest in those from Tacámbaro and intermediate in length in the one
specimen from Pátzcuaro. The shorter tooth-row at the lower elevation
(Tacámbaro), we interpret as intergradation with _Oryzomys couesi
mexicanus_. In color the specimens from Tacámbaro are, to us,
indistinguishable from those from Zamora and Pátzcuaro but the color
is notably darker than that of specimens from the vicinity of
Apatzingan which are here referred to the subspecies _Oryzomys couesi
mexicanus_. The largest male, fully adult from Zamora weighs 82.9
grams and the largest one from the vicinity of Tacámbaro weighs 73.6
grams.
=Oryzomys couesi mexicanus= Allen
Tropical Rice Rat; Spanish, Rata Arrocera Tropical
_Oryzomys mexicanus_ Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:52,
March 15, 1897, type from Hacienda San Marcos, 3,500 ft.,
Tonila, Jalisco.
_Oryzomys couesi mexicanus_, Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 43:33,
September 23, 1918.
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