Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, MexicoAlvarez, Ticul
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Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico
Alvarez, Ticul
Mammals -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State)
External and cranial measurements of _P. m. goldmani_ previously
were known only for the holotype (Osgood, 1909:252, 267).
Measurements of five adults, a male (75370) and four females
(75365, 75369, 75371-72) are, respectively, as follows: total
length, 204, 225, 215, 214, 210; length of tail, 105, 120, 110,
108, 109; length of hind foot, 21, 23, 23, 22, 22; length of ear
from notch, 21, 21, 21, 20, 21; weight in grams, 29, 19, 35
(pregnant), 33, 34 (pregnant); greatest length of skull, 26.6,
26.5, 26.9, 26.5,----; zygomatic breadth, 13.8, 13.9, 14.1,
13.4,----; interorbital constriction, 3.9, 3.8, 4.0, 4.0,----;
mastoid breadth, 11.8, 11.9, 11.8, 11.9, 11.5; length of nasals,
10.1, 9.4, 10.0, 10.0,----; length of maxillary tooth-row, 4.5,
4.3, 4.1, 4.1, 4.1.
_=Onychomys torridus yakiensis=_ Merriam.--Only one specimen of this
grasshopper mouse has been reported previously from Sinaloa (from the
town of Sinaloa by Hollister, 1914:471). Thirteen specimens in the
Museum of Natural History better define the range of the species in the
state as follows: 12 mi. N Culiacán (67981-82); 6 mi. N, 1½ mi. E El
Dorado (75374-80); 2½ mi. N El Fuerte (75373); 1 mi. S Pericos
(62118-20). The individuals from northeast of El Dorado extend the known
range of the species some 115 miles south-southeast from Sinaloa.
A female taken on November 17, 1957, from 6 mi. N, 1½ mi. E El Dorado
carried two embryos that measured 23 mm. in crown-rump length. A female
obtained on November 18 at the same place carried four embryos that
measured 10 mm.
_=Neotoma albigula melanura=_ Merriam.--Four specimens from northern
Sinaloa, two (85379-80) from 3 mi. N, 1 mi. E San Miguel, 350 ft., and
two (75386-87) from 2½ mi. N El Fuerte, provide the first records of
the species from the state. _N. a. melanura_ has been known previously
from adjacent parts of Sonora and Chihuahua (see Hall and Kelson,
1959:687-688). The specimens from northeast of San Miguel were trapped
in runways under cholla cactus, in which nests also were found, on a
slope above a rocky arroyo.
_=Spilogale pygmaea=_ Thomas.--Two pygmy spotted skunks from 5 mi. NW
Mazatlán (85898-99) are the fifth and sixth of the species to be
reported (see Van Gelder, 1959:381) and the second and third taken in
Sinaloa (the holotype of _pygmaea_ was obtained at Rosario). One of our
specimens, an adult male, was shot on the night of January 10, 1961, as
it foraged near an old hollow tree in weedy-thorn bush habitat adjacent
to the Pacific Ocean. The hollow tree contained the nest of a woodrat.
The second, an adult female, was trapped nearby in a commercial rat trap
baited with peanut butter and set near a burrow in a forested area
having little undergrowth.
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