Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores — John Shaqi
Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and CarnivoresHall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores
Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Mammals -- North America
When Goldman (Jour. Mamm., 3:40, February 10, 1921) named _C. m.
venaticus_ from Arizona he did not mention material which Merriam
(Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15:163, August 6, 1902) had recorded
from Ft. Verde, Arizona, under the name _Conepatus mesoleucus
mearnsi_. This material seems to be specimens in the American Museum
of Natural History of which the two oldest specimens are as follows:
No. 2486/1921, male, adult, from Box Cañon, 20 mi. S Ft. Verde; No.
2487/1922, female, subadult, from Verde River, Arizona. Pertinent
measurements of these specimens are, respectively, as follows:
condylobasal length, 72.4, 68.8; zygomatic breadth, 50.0, 44.2; width
of braincase at constriction behind zygomata, 36.4, 33.8; mastoidal
breadth, 44.3, 38.4. Comparison of these measurements with those given
for _C. m. venaticus_ (Goldman, _loc. cit._) reveals that the
specimens concerned agree in narrowness of skull with _C. m.
venaticus_ (_C. m. mearnsi_ is relatively wider) and it is on this
basis that we refer the specimens to _Conepatus mesoleucus venaticus_.
~Urocyon cinereoargenteus costaricensis~ Goodwin
J. A. Allen (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20:48, February 29, 1904)
listed two specimens of gray fox from Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, as
_Urocyon guatemalae_. Goodwin, in his "Mammals of Costa Rica" (Bull.
Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 87(5):271-474, December 31, 1946) did not
mention any material from Pozo Azul. We have examined the skull of the
adult female (No. 19208 AMNH) taken on July 17, 1902, at Pozo Zul
[sic], by M. A. Carriker and find it to be indistinguishable from
other specimens of _Urocyon cinereoargenteus costaricensis_ to which
subspecies we therefore refer the specimen.
~Canis lupus griseoalbus~ Baird
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