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
[48] American Museum of Natural History.
[49] Univ. Illinois, Mus. Nat. History.
=Baiomys taylori fuliginatus=, new subspecies
_Baiomys taylori taylori_, Dalquest, Louisiana State Univ. Studies
(Biol. Sci. Ser.) 1:155, December 28, 1953 (part).
_Baiomys taylori taylori_, Booth, Walla Walla Publs. Dept. Biol.
Sci., 20:15, July 10, 1957 (part).
_Type._--Adult male, skin and skull; No. 36765, University of Kansas,
Museum of Natural History; 10 mi. E, 2 mi. N Ciudad del Maiz, 4000 ft.,
San Luis Potosi, Republic of Mexico; obtained on January 17, 1950, by J.
R. Alcorn, original number 10400.
_Range._--Occurs in the Sierra Madre Oriental of the northeastern third
of San Luis Potosi. Zonal range: Upper Tropical (see Dalquest, 1953:10);
approximates a part of the Sierra Madre Oriental Biotic Province of
Goldman and Moore (1945:349, 356). Occurs from 2000 feet at El Salto up
to 4000 feet at Ciudad del Maiz.
_Diagnosis._--Size large for the species; ground color of dorsum
Chaetura Drab; individual guard hairs of dorsum black to base, distal
fourth of hairs of underfur in posterior half of dorsum tipped with
grayish-brown, proximal three-fourths Dark Neutral Gray; in anterior
region of dorsum, posterior to ears, distal third of hairs grayish-brown
and proximal two-thirds Dark Neutral Gray to base; sides slightly paler
than dorsum; ground color of belly Neutral Gray, individual hairs of
belly and throat tipped with Pallid Neutral Gray, basally Deep Neutral
Gray to Dark Neutral Gray; tips of individual hairs of face
Ochraceous-Tawny; lateral vibrissae whitish, dorsal and ventral
vibrissae black to base; forefeet and hind feet sooty above and below,
thigh bearing some white-tipped hairs; tail near Chaetura Drab above,
Pale Neutral Gray below; anterior part of jugal projecting slightly
ventrally and forming small protuberance at point of articulation with
maxillary part of zygoma; jugal extending anteriorly nearly to lacrimal.
In most cranial measurements averaging as large as _B. t. analogous_.
Average and extreme measurements of the type and three additional
paratypes, all adults, are: total length, 105.5 (101-109); length of
tail, 39.8 (35-42); length of body, 65.8 (63-68); length of hind foot,
14.3 (14-15); length of ear from notch, 11 (11); occipitonasal length,
18.1 (18.1-18.8); zygomatic breadth, 9.6 (9.3-9.8); postpalatal length,
6.5 (6.0-6.7); least interorbital breadth, 3.4 (3.3-3.6); length of
incisive foramina, 4.0 (3.8-4.2); length of rostrum, 6.3 (6.1-6.4);
breadth of braincase, 8.8 (8.6-8.9); depth of cranium, 6.7 (6.5-6.8);
alveolar length of maxillary tooth-row, 3.2 (3.1-3.3); for photograph of
skull, see Plate 2_d_, and Plate 4_e_.
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