Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus BaiomysPackard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis)
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Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys
Packard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis)
Mice
_Specimens examined._--Total 187 all from VERACRUZ, Republic of Mexico,
and distributed as follows: type locality, 4400 ft., 16[1] (including
the type), 6[2], 1[3]; _Cerro Gordo_, 1500 ft., 19; _Teocelo_
[= _Texolo_], 4500 ft., 1; _2 mi. NW Plan del Rio_, 1000 ft., 14[4];
_Plan del Rio_, 1000 ft., 2[5]; _Carrizal_, 4[2]; Chichicaxtle, 3[2];
_Puente Nacional_, 500 ft., 1[5], 2; _Santa Maria, near Mirador_, 1800 ft.,
10[2]; Boca del Rio, 10 ft., 1[5], 8; _Cordoba_ [= _Cordova_], 14[1];
_4 km. WNW Fortin_, 4; _Rio Atoyac, 8 km. NW Potrero_, 1; _2 km. N.
Paraje Nuevo_, 1700 ft., 9; _El Xuchil_, _1 mi. W. Paraje Nuevo_, 6[6];
Potrero Viejo, 1700 ft. 15; _Cautlapan_ [= _Ixtaczequitlan_], 4000 ft.,
16; _Micayucan_, 1; 3 km. SE Orizaba, 5500 ft., 3; Rio Blanco, 20 km.
WNW Piedras Negras, 400 ft, 7; _29 km. SE Cordoba, Presidio_, 15[4];
_3 km. N Presidio_, 1500 ft., 2; Presidio, 600 meters, 6[3].
_Marginal records._--VERACRUZ: type locality; Chichicaxtle; Boca del
Rio, 10 ft.; Rio Blanco, 20 km. WNW Piedras Negras, 400 ft; Presidio; 3
km. SE Orizaba, 5500 ft.
[1] American Museum of Natural History.
[2] U. S. Nat. Museum (Biol. Surv. Coll.).
[3] Chicago Natural History Museum.
[4] Univ. Michigan, Museum of Zoology.
[5] Texas A & M, Coop. Wildlife Res. Coll.
[6] Univ. Illinois, Mus. Nat. History.
=Baiomys musculus grisescens= Goldman
_Baiomys musculus griesescens_ Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
45:121, July 30, 1932; Ellerman, The Families and Genera of Living
Rodents, 2:402, March 21, 1941; Poole and Schantz, Bull. U. S. Nat.
Mus., 178:259, March 6, 1942; Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
79(2):160-161, May 29, 1942 (part); Miller and Kellogg, Bull. U. S.
Nat. Mus., 205:513, March 3, 1955 (part); Felten, Senck. Biol.,
39:136, August 30, 1958; Packard, Univ. Kansas Publs., Mus. Nat.
Hist., 9:401, December 19, 1958; Hall and Kelson, The Mammals of
North America, 2:661, March 31, 1959 (part).
_Type._--Adult female, skin and skull; No. 257083 U. S. Nat. Mus. (Biol.
Surv. Coll.); Comayabuela [= Comayaguela] just south of Tegucigalpa,
3100 feet, Honduras; obtained on March 6, 1932, by C. F. Underwood,
original number 838.
_Range._--Central to south-central Guatemala, east to south-central
Honduras. Zonal range: Lower parts of the Merendon Biotic Province of
Smith (1949:235). Occurs from 3200 feet at a place 1/2 mi. N and 1 mi. W
Salama, Guatemala, up to approximately 4500 feet at Monte Redondo,
Guatemala.
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