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
In addition to the materials mentioned above we have used published
references to mammals of Michoacán and have prepared the following
lists of kinds of mammals positively known to us to occur in the
Mexican state of Michoacán. It is noteworthy that specimens recorded
in the literature from Acámbaro, Michoacán, no longer are to be
ascribed to Michoacán, since a relocation of the boundary between the
states of Michoacán and Guanajuato, places Acámbaro in the latter
state.
Our aims were: (1) To record kinds of mammals positively known from
the state, under the correct scientific name, and vernacular names in
English, Spanish, and Tarascan. The first Tarascan name is given in
the spelling used by Tarascans followed by the phonetic equivalent in
English in parentheses. (2) To indicate the geographic range of each
kind in the state, and, (3) To record miscellaneous information which
it is thought probably will be useful in one way or another to other
students whose work certainly will lengthen the list of kinds of
mammals known from Michoacán and otherwise add to our knowledge of
them.
Several kinds of bats, of which we lack records, certainly occur in
Michoacán. Four or five kinds of cats (genus _Felis_), species of the
genera _Potos_, _Lutra_, _Tayra_, _Grison_, and several other kinds of
mammals of which we now lack positive record, also probably occur
there; the list of kinds, we expect, will number more than one hundred
species and subspecies when more intensive collecting has been done in
the state. In all, we have positive record of 85 kinds of native, wild
mammals of which specimens have been examined or recorded from
Michoacán. Distances and elevations here are recorded either in the
metric system or in the English system, according to the system used
on the labels of the specimens concerned. Unless otherwise indicated,
catalogue numbers of more than 100,000 are of specimens in the
University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy and numbers of
less than 100,000 are of the Chicago Natural History Museum.
[Illustration: FIG. 1. Map of the state of Michoacán showing
place names mentioned in the text.]
ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES
=Didelphis mesamericana mesamericana= Oken
Opossum; Spanish, Tlacuache; Tarascan, Ujkúri (Ukuri)
_Did[elphys]. mesamericana_ Oken, Lehrbuch d. Naturgesch.,
pt. 3, 2:1152, 1816, type from northern México.
_Didelphis mesamericana_, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
16:256, August 18, 1902.
_Range._--Statewide.
_Specimens examined_, 7: nos. 100063-100067, 100074, 51396,
distributed by localities as follows: Pátzcuaro (3 mi. N, 6,700 ft.,
1; 2 mi. W, 6,700 ft., 2; 5 mi. S, 7,800 ft., 1), 4; Tancítaro, 1;
1-3/4 mi. S Tacámbaro, 5,700 ft., 1; 1 mi. E and 6 mi. S Tacámbaro, 1.
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