Conspecificity of two pocket mice, Perognathus goldmani and P. artusHall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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Conspecificity of two pocket mice, Perognathus goldmani and P. artus
Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Pocket mice
Six specimens (61409-61413, 61415 K. U. collected by J. R. Alcorn),
including five adults (permanent fourth premolar of full height and
having cusps worn but not so much as to make a lake of dentine), from
four miles north of Terrero, Sinaloa, also seem to be intergrades
between _Perognathus goldmani_ and _Perognathus artus_. As compared
with adults of _P. goldmani_ from 10 miles north-northwest of Los
Mochis, Sinaloa, and _P. artus_ from one mile south of Pericos,
Sinaloa, the specimens from four miles north of Terrero are almost
exactly intermediate in length of hind foot, width of interparietal,
and width of tympanic bullae. Intermediacy is shown also in total
length of animal (slightly nearer that of _artus_) and length of
tympanic bullae (slightly nearer that of _goldmani_). In lack of
inflation laterally of the mastoidal bullae the specimens agree with
_artus_. In occipitonasal length and mastoidal breadth the specimens
from four miles north of Terrero average even larger than _goldmani_
from 10 miles north-northwest of Los Mochis but not so large as
specimens of _goldmani_ from the type locality, which is still farther
north. The uninflated mastoidal bullae "tip the balance" slightly in
favor of _artus_ to which the specimens from four miles north of
Terrero are here referred. The degree of inflation of the mastoidal
bullae elsewhere varies geographically. For example, the mastoidal
bullae of the 25 specimens of _goldmani_ from two and a half miles
north of El Fuerte, Sinaloa, are intermediate in size as between those
of _goldmani_ and _artus_.
The morphological intermediacy of the specimens from four and a half
miles southeast of Alamos and of those from four miles north of
Terrero, along with the geographic intermediacy of the two localities
where the specimens were obtained constitute basis for arranging
_artus_ as a subspecies of _goldmani_ that has one page of priority.
[Illustration: MAP 1. Geographic distribution of _Perognathus
goldmani_. The black dots are known localities of occurrence.
1. _P. g. artus_
2. _P. g. goldmani_]
~Perognathus goldmani goldmani~ Osgood
_Perognathus goldmani_ Osgood, N. Amer. Fauna, 18:54,
September 20, 1900, type from Sinaloa, Sinaloa.
_Range._--See map 1.
_Measurements._--Average of five topotypes (Osgood, _op.
cit._:55): total length, 202; tail vertebrae, 112; hind
foot, 28; occipitonasal length, 27.7; mastoidal breadth,
14.5; greatest width of interparietal, 7.4.
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