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
Two of the three specimens (KU 63052 and 63055) are the darkest of a
series in which the palest are inseparable from _B. m. pallidus_.
Goodwin, who kindly compared the three specimens with the type of
_nebulosus_, mentioned (_in. litt._) that the skull of the type has a
slenderer rostrum. Included in the series of skulls of _B. m. pallidus_
from 3 mi. W Mitla are several adults (not seen by Goodwin) with slender
rostra. _B. m. nebulosus_ is judged to be a synonym of _B. m. pallidus_.
Populations of pygmy mice occurring in partially isolated areas of
highland in Oaxaca seem to me to be incipient subspecies.
_Specimens examined._--Total 824 all from the Republic of Mexico and
distributed as follows: PUEBLA: 2 mi. S Atlixco, 5800 ft., 1; _1 mi. SSW
Tilapa_, 5800 ft., 2; _6 mi. SW Izucar de Matemores_, 7; _Piaxtla_, 3900
ft., 4[18]; Acatlan, 4100 ft., 1. MORELOS: 5 mi. W Tepoztlan, 6000 ft.,
7[19]; _1 mi. W Tepoztlan_, 6000 ft., 9[19]; _2 mi. SW Tepoztlan_, 7000
ft., 1[20]; _Cuernvaca_, 9[19]; _6 mi. W Yautepec_, 4500 ft., 1[20];
_Yautepec_, 12[19]; _3 mi. N Alpuyeca_, 4000 ft., 2[20]; _Puente de
Ixtla_, 2[19]; _Tetecala_, 4[21]; _2 km. S Jonacatepec_, 4500 ft., 6[20];
_type locality_, 6 (including the type). GUERRERO: _Yerbabuena_, 1800
m., 1; _Cueva de tia Juana_ [= _1.5 km. SSW Yerbabuena_], 1; _Laguna
Honda_, 1840 m. [= _1.5 km. S Yerbabuena_], 3; 9 mi. SE Taxco, 3800 ft.,
1[22]; _17 km. S Taxco_, 4000 ft., 2[20]; _Iguala_, 5[19]; _3.2 km. SSE
Iguala_, 970 m., 1; 1 km. SSE Texcaizintla, 1600 m., 2; _Teloloapan_,
20[19], 5[24]; _1 km. N Chapa_, 1470 m., 6; _Chapa_, 1470 m., 5; El Limon,
3[18]; 2-1/2 mi. W Mexcala, 2100 ft., 1[20]; _Rio Balsas_, 1[18]; Ayusinaha
[= Ayotzinapa], 1[18]; _Tlapa_, 3900 ft, 1[18]; _2.5 mi. S Almolonga_,
5600 ft., 13[20]; _1 km. N Zihuatanejo_, 1; Zihuatanejo Bay, 4[19]; _Las
Gatas_ [= _2 km. S. Zihuatanejo_], 2; _2 km. SSE Zihuatanejo_, 9; _4 mi.
W Chilpancingo_, 5800 ft., 3[20]; _Chilpancingo_, 4800 ft., 14[18], 21[19],
45[21]; _2 mi. N Tixtla_, 4400 ft., 3[20]; _3.2 km. S Chilpancingo_, 4;
_Cd. Chamilpa_ [= _12 km. ESE Chilpancingo_], 5; _Tlalixtaquilla_, 4200
ft., 2[18]; _15 km. S. Chilpancingo_, 4300 ft., 10[20]; _1 mi. SW
Colotlipa_, 2700 ft., 16[20]; _2 mi. SW Colotlipa_, 2700 ft., 1[20];
_Achuitzotla_, 2800 ft., 7[20]; _8 mi. SW Colotlipa_, 1[20]; _5 mi. S
Rincon_, 2600 ft., 2[20]; _8 mi. SW Tierra Colorado_, 600 ft., 1[20]; Rio
Aguacatillo, _30 km. N Acapulco_, 1000 ft., 3[20]; 5 mi. ESE Tecpan, 50
ft., 9; _Ejido Viejo_, _12 km. NNW Acapulco_, 1; _2 mi. NNW Acapulco_,
7; Acapulco, 3[18], 3[21]; Omentepec, 200 ft., 7[18]. OAXACA: _4 mi. E
Huajuapam_, 5000 ft., 1; 2 mi. NW Tamazulapan, 6550 ft., 1; Yalalag,
3000 ft., 5[18]; _11 mi. NW Oaxaca_ [_City_], 1; _Yaganiza_, 3900 ft.,
1[18]; Oaxaca [City], 5000 ft., 15, 7[21], 7[19], 5[24]; _3 mi. ESE Oaxaca_
[_City_], 30; _4 mi. ESE Oaxaca_ [_City_], 5050 ft., 1; _10 mi. SE
Oaxaca_ [City], 1[22]; _Cerro Ocotepec_, 1[23]; Tepantepec, 9[23]; _1 mi. E
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