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
Mexican Meadow Mouse; Spanish, Metorito
_Microtus mexicanus salvus_ Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus.
Nat. Hist., 1:426, December 24, 1948, type from Mount
Tancítaro, 11,400 ft., Michoacán.
_Range._--Known only from Mount Tancítaro at elevations of 7,800 to
11,400 feet.
_Specimens examined_, 14: nos. 51412, 51413, 52093, 52095-52099, 52101,
52103-52107, all from Mount Tancítaro, distributed by elevations as
follows: 11,400 ft., 8; 11,000 ft., 2; 7,800 ft., 1; no elevation
recorded, 3.
=Microtus mexicanus fundatus= Hall
Mexican Meadow Mouse; Spanish, Metorito
_Microtus mexicanus fundatus_ Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus.
Nat. Hist., 1:425, December 24, 1948, type from 3-1/2 mi. S.
Pátzcuaro, 7,900 ft., Michoacán.
_Range._--Central part of state.
_Specimens examined_, 59: nos. 100636-100694, distributed, with
reference to the town of Pátzcuaro, as follows: 3-1/2 mi. S, 7,900 ft.,
9; 4 mi. S, 7,800 ft., 16; 5 mi. S, 7,800 ft., 26; 9 mi. SE, 8,000 ft., 8.
_Remarks._--Of the 23 females, only one was pregnant. It had two
embryos. Average and extreme weights of ten adults of each sex, are:
males, 37.8 (31.5-48.2); females, 38.0 (31.0-48.6) grams. Our
specimens were trapped in well-defined runways beneath a rail fence
where there was a growth of grass sufficient to make a cover for the
runways. Bailey (1900:54-55) has recorded under the name _Microtus
mexicanus phaeus_ specimens from Nahuatzin which may be referable to
the subspecies _M. m. fundatus_.
=Mus musculus= subsp.?
House Mouse; Spanish, Ratón Casero
_Mus musculus_ Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 1:62, 1758,
type from Upsala, Sweden.
_Range._--Probably throughout state.
_Specimens examined_, 4: nos. 100696-100699, of which one is from
Tacámbaro, 5,700 ft., and 3 are from 4 mi. S and 1 mi. E Tacámbaro,
4,500 ft.
_Remarks._--In each of our specimens the belly is dark, approximately
as dark as the back. The specimens caught by us were living in the
wild; that is to say, they were not caught in and around buildings.
Elliot (1903:141) records the species from Pátzcuaro.
=Rattus rattus alexandrinus= (Geoffroy)
Black Rat; Spanish, Rata Negra
_Mus alexandrinus_ Geoffroy, Catal. Mammif. du Mus. Nat.
d'Hist., Paris, p. 192, 1803, type from Alexandria, Egypt.
_R_[_attus_]. _rattus alexandrinus_, Hinton, Jour. Bombay Nat.
Hist. Soc., 26:63, December 20, 1918.
_Range._--Probably throughout tropical and subtropical parts of state;
recorded also from Pátzcuaro.
_Specimens examined_, 3: nos. 52027, 52033 from Tancítaro and 8909 from
Pátzcuaro.
_Remarks._--These specimens answer well to the description of _R. r.
alexandrinus_ except that no. 8909, taken in May, 1901, by F. E. Lutz,
has yellowish underparts suggestive of _Rattus rattus frugivorous_. In
the town of Tacámbaro we saw a freshly killed rat of this species
which was all black.
=Sylvilagus floridanus subcinctus= (Miller)
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