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
_Type._--Female, adult, no. 262655, U. S. Nat. Mus. Biol. Surv.
Coll.; Bird Island, Great Salt Lake, 4,300 ft., Tooele County,
Utah; obtained on June 22, 1937, by W. H. Marshall, X-catalog no.
27969.
_Range._--Bird, Carrington, Badger and Stansbury islands, Great
Salt Lake; around western edge of Great Salt Lake north to Kelton,
Box Elder County, Utah; around southern and southeastern edge of
the lake to mouth of the Jordan River; marginal occurrences are:
all in Utah, Kelton, 2 mi. W Grantsville, 14 mi. W Salt Lake City
and Bird Island, Great Salt Lake.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements). Color pale, entire
dorsal surface near Pinkish Buff, purest on sides, flanks and
cheeks with but slight suffusion of black on upper parts;
arietiform markings, pinnae of ears, plantar surfaces of hind
feet, and dorsal and ventral stripes of tail, brownish. Skull
medium in size; rostrum narrow and long; pterygoid fossae ovoid;
cutting edge of upper incisors narrow; external auditory meatus
round and small; jugal straight or nearly so.
_Comparisons._--From _Dipodomys ordii pallidus_, _D. o. marshalli_
differs in: Hind foot smaller; color darker, arietiform markings
more distinct; dorsal and ventral stripes of tail more pronounced;
skull smaller; palate shorter and wider; jugals lighter; external
auditory meatus smaller; cutting edge of upper incisors narrower;
nasals shorter and less flared distally.
From _Dipodomys ordii utahensis_, _D. o. marshalli_ differs in:
Size smaller; color lighter; skull smaller, except least
interorbital width and depth of auditory bullae which are greater;
cutting edge of upper incisors narrower; nasals less flared
distally.
For comparison with _Dipodomys ordii celeripes_ see account of
that subspecies.
_Remarks._--This subspecies was described from Bird Island, Great Salt
Lake, and was thought by Marshall (1940:153), who collected the
specimens, to be restricted to that island. However, specimens taken
over a period of years on the nearby mainland, by students from the
University of Utah, are referable to this subspecies. Although these
animals from the mainland are referable to _D. o. marshalli_, they have
some characteristics of _D. o. utahensis_ from the eastern and southern
mainland. Four specimens from Kelton, also on the mainland, are not
typical of _D. o. marshalli_; nevertheless, more than half of their
characters of taxonomic worth are as in _D. o. marshalli_ to which the
animals are referred.
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