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
_Zapus hudsonius_, Kermode and Anderson, Rep. Prov. Mus. Nat. Hist.
for 1913:21, 1914.
_Zapus princeps saltator_, Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool.,
37:10, April 10, 1931.
_Type._--Female, subadult, skin and skull, No. 14408, Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist.; Telegraph Creek, British Columbia; obtained on August 23, 1897,
by A. J. Stone.
_Range._--Southern Yukon and southeastern Alaska south in British
Columbia, to Bella Coola Inlet and Glacier. See fig. 46. Zonal range:
Canadian and Hudsonian.
_Description._--Size medium; back near Ochraceous-Buff, overlaid with
black hairs forming dark dorsal band thickly flecked with ochraceous;
sides lighter than back; lateral line usually distinct; belly pure
white, sometimes faintly suffused with Ochraceous-Buff; tail bicolored,
dark above and grayish-white below; hind feet grayish-white above; ears
dark, edged with yellowish-white or Ochraceous-Buff; incisive foramina
long, broad posteriorly; palatal bridge relatively short; postpalatal
notch anterior to posterior border of last molars; proximal part of
inferior ramus of zygomatic process of maxillary without enlarged median
projection; zygomatic arch short.
_Comparisons._--For comparison with _Zapus princeps kootenayensis_ and
_Zapus princeps idahoensis_ see accounts of those subspecies.
_Remarks._--The geographic range of _Z. p. saltator_, as here
understood, includes several localities heretofore considered to be
within the geographic ranges of neighboring subspecies. Specimens from
Indianpoint Lake, 15 mi. N of Barkerville, British Columbia, for
example, which Hall (1934:379) considered nearer _Z. p. princeps_, are
here referred to _Z. p. saltator_, with which they closely agree in
cranial measurements and color of pelage. One individual from Glacier,
British Columbia, thought to be _Z. p. princeps_ by Preble (1899:32), is
here considered to show intergradation between _Z. p. kootenayensis_ and
_Z. p. saltator_ but is more nearly like _Z. p. saltator_ to which it is
here referred. Intergradation between _Zapus princeps idahoensis_ and
_Z. p. saltator_ is noted, in color and in shape and size of the
incisive foramina, in a specimen from Vermilion Crossing, Kootenay,
British Columbia. The majority of cranial characters show these animals
to be referable to _Z. p. idahoensis_. Specimens from Mt. Revelstoke,
3400 ft., British Columbia, show intergradation in shape of auditory
bullae, in breadth of pterygoid fossae, and in shape and size of
antorbital foramina between _Z. p. idahoensis_ and _Z. p. saltator_.
Resemblance in pelage and in the majority of cranial characters
indicates that these specimens are best referred to _Z. p. saltator_.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 187, distributed as follows:
ALASKA: Taku River, 1 (MVZ).
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