North American Jumping Mice (Genus Zapus)Krutzsch, Philip H. (Philip Henry)
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North American Jumping Mice (Genus Zapus)
Krutzsch, Philip H. (Philip Henry)
Zapus
ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIFIC AND SUBSPECIFIC NAMES
(Applied to the genus _Zapus_ since 1899)
Edward A. Preble's (1899) early revisionary account of the genus _Zapus_
provides an annotated list of the names which had been proposed for
American jumping mice to that date. The present account supplies in
chronological order the names proposed (including the new kinds
described by Preble) in the 54 years since Preble's revision. Detailed
synonymies are given for each kind under the accounts of the
subspecies.
1899 _campestris_ (_Zapus hudsonius_) Preble, N. Amer. Fauna,
15:20, August 8, 1899, applies to the jumping mouse of southeastern
Montana, and the Black Hills region of Wyoming and South Dakota.
1899 _minor_ (_Zapus princeps_) Preble, N. Amer. Fauna, 15:23,
August 8, 1899, originally applied to the jumping mouse of the
prairies of Saskatchewan, but now includes populations of this
species from the plains of Canada (southern Manitoba to Canadian
Rockies) and northern United States (Montana, North and South
Dakota).
1899 _oregonus_ (_Zapus princeps_) Preble, N. Amer. Fauna, 15:24,
August 8, 1899, originally applied to the jumping mouse of eastern
Oregon, but now applies also to populations from southeastern
Idaho, eastern and central Nevada, and extreme northeastern
California.
1899 _major_ (_Zapus_) Preble [= _Zapus princeps oregonus_], N.
Amer. Fauna, 15:25, August 8, 1899, arranged as a subspecies of
_Zapus princeps_ by Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 37:10,
April 10, 1931; here considered a synonym of _Zapus princeps
oregonus_.
1899 _nevadensis_ (_Zapus_) Preble [= _Zapus princeps oregonus_],
N. Amer. Fauna, 15:25, August 8, 1899, arranged as a subspecies of
_Zapus princeps_ by Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 37:10,
April 10, 1931; here considered a synonym of _Zapus princeps
oregonus_.
1899 _orarius_ (_Zapus_) Preble [= _Zapus trinotatus orarius_], N.
Amer. Fauna, 15:29, August 8, 1899, applies to the animals from
southwestern Marin County, California.
1911 _luteus_ (_Zapus_) Miller [= _Zapus princeps luteus_], Proc.
Biol. Soc. Washington, 24:253, December 23, 1911, applies to the
jumping mouse in north-central and southern New Mexico and eastern
Arizona.
1913 _australis_ (_Zapus luteus_) Bailey [= _Zapus princeps
luteus_], Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 26:129, May 21, 1913, was
applied to the jumping mouse of southern New Mexico, but is here
regarded as a synonym of _luteus_.
1920 _eureka_ (_Zapus trinotatus_) Howell, Univ. California Publ.
Zool., 21:229, May 20, 1920, applies to the jumping mouse of the
humid coastal district of northern California.
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