Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii: KU. Vol 1 No 23Setzer, Henry W.
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Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii: KU. Vol 1 No 23
Setzer, Henry W.
Kangaroo rats
_Comparisons._--From _Dipodomys ordii ordii_, _D. o. sennetti_
differs in: Size smaller, tail shorter; color darker; skull
smaller; nasals longer; rostrum wider; auditory bullae less
inflated; external auditory meatus smaller; pterygoid fossae more
rounded; zygomatic arches heavier.
From _Dipodomys ordii medius_, _D. o. sennetti_ differs as
follows: Size smaller; color darker, but with less red in pelage;
skull markedly smaller in all respects.
From _Dipodomys ordii compactus_, _D. o. sennetti_ differs in:
Size somewhat less; color darker; skull with total length greater;
orbit smaller; least interorbital width greater; braincase more
inflated; width across auditory bullae more; interparietal region
wider; external auditory meatus larger; medial part of audital
portion (see Howell, 1932) of auditory bullae larger.
_Remarks._--_Dipodomys sennetti_, along with _Dipodomys compactus_,
was regarded by Davis as conspecific with _Dipodomys ordii_.
Reasons for placing these two kinds of kangaroo rats as subspecies
of _D. ordii_ are given in the account of _Dipodomys ordii compactus_.
This subspecies is known only from north of the Rio Grande
which may serve as a barrier to the spread of the animal into
northern Tamaulipas.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 20, all from Texas, distributed as
follows: _Atascosa County_: Somerset, 2 (TCWC). _LaSalle County_: 8
mi. NE Los Angeles, 1 (TCWC); 8 mi. E Encinal, 1 (TCWC). _Kleberg
County_: 2 mi. S Riviera, 9 (TCWC). _Jim Hogg County_: Hebronville,
8 (LACM). _Brooks County_: Falfurrias, 2 (LACM). _Willacy County_:
28 mi. E Raymondville, 2 (TCWC).
=Dipodomys ordii evexus= Goldman
_Dipodomys ordii evexus_ Goldman, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci.,
23:468, October 15, 1933.
_Perodipus montanus richardsoni_ Warren, Mammals of Colorado, p.
76, 1910 (part--the part from Salida, Colorado).
_Type._--Male, adult, no. 150990, U. S. Nat. Mus. Biol. Surv.
Coll.; Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude 7000 ft.);
obtained on November 10, 1907, by Merritt Cary, original no. 1245.
_Range._--Upper Arkansas River Valley of south-central Colorado,
from Salida to Pueblo.
_Diagnosis._--Size large (see measurements). Color dark, entire
dorsal surface between (_16´´_) Pinkish Cinnamon and Cinnamon-Buff,
purest on sides and flanks, upper parts strongly suffused with
black; arietiform markings, pinnae of ears, plantar surfaces of
hind feet and dorsal and ventral stripes of tail, blackish. Skull
of medium size; rostrum short and wide; nasals short; auditory
bullae but slightly inflated; braincase but slightly vaulted.
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