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
_Type._--Male, subadult, skin and skull, No. 80445, U. S. Nat. Mus.
Biol. Surv. Coll.; Prospect, Rogue River Valley, Jackson Co., Oregon;
obtained on August 29, 1896, by Edward A. Preble, original No. 1454.
_Range._--Sierra Nevada Mt's, from Kern Peak, Tulare County, California,
northeastward to Mt. Rose, Washoe County, Nevada, then northwestward
through the Trinity and Salmon mountains, California, to the upper Rogue
River Valley, Oregon, thence southwestward to South Yolla Bolly Mt'n,
Tehama County, California. See fig. 46. Zonal range: Transition,
Canadian, and Hudsonian.
_Description._--Size medium; color bright; back near Ochraceous-Buff
with admixture of black hair forming dark dorsal band; sides bright
Ochraceous-Buff with fine admixture of black hair; lateral line blending
with color of sides or wanting or indistinct; ventral surface white;
tail bicolored, grayish-brown above, yellowish-white below, in some
specimens with white tip; feet grayish-white above; ears dark, edged
with Ochraceous Buff; braincase relatively narrow; incisive foramina
relatively short; pterygoid fossae usually broad; proximal part of
inferior ramus of zygomatic process of maxillary broad; postpalatal
notch usually broadly rounded; auditory bullae relatively small and
flattened; nasals parallel sided; maxillary tooth-row short;
interorbital region moderately broad.
_Comparison._--From _Zapus princeps oregonus_, _Z. p. pacificus_ differs
in being brighter in all pigmented areas; more ochraceous and less
yellow laterally; dorsally more ochraceous and less black; size
averaging smaller; maxillary tooth-rows shorter; auditory bullae less
inflated and smaller; interorbital region averaging narrower; palatal
bridge averaging shorter; incisive foramina shorter and posteriorly
narrower; nasals parallel rather than narrowed posteriorly.
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