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 columbianus_, _D. o.
inaquosus_ differs as follows: Size larger; color lighter; skull
larger; nasals longer; rostrum longer and wider; interorbital
region narrower; braincase more vaulted; interparietal larger;
auditory bullae more inflated ventrally; pterygoid fossae
subcircular as opposed to nearly circular; zygomatic arches more
robust.
From _Dipodomys ordii monoensis_, _D. o. inaquosus_ differs in:
Size larger; color lighter; skull larger; nasals longer; rostrum
wider; interorbital width greater; braincase more vaulted;
auditory bullae more inflated laterally, ventrally and
posteriorly; interparietal region narrower; pterygoid fossae
subcircular as opposed to circular; lacrimal processes larger;
foramen magnum ovoid as opposed to circular.
_Remarks._--In pallor _D. o. inaquosus_ closely approaches _Dipodomys
ordii celeripes_ from eastern Nevada and western Utah. The two
populations are separated, however, by a large area inhabited by the
darker _Dipodomys ordii columbianus_. Specimens from 18 mi. NE Iron
Point, Nevada, which Hall (1946:413) refers to _D. o. columbianus_, are
intergrades in color, size and cranial characters and here are referred
to _D. o. inaquosus_ instead of to _D. o. columbianus_. Animals from
Toulon are intergrades between _D. o. inaquosus_ and _Dipodomys ordii
monoensis_ but are referable to the latter.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 47, all from Nevada, distributed as
follows: _Humboldt County_: 18 mi. NE Iron Point, 4600 ft., 1
(MVZ); 7 mi. N Winnemucca, 4400 ft., 4 (MVZ); 1 mi. N Winnemucca,
4600 ft., 8 (MVZ); 5 mi. NE Golconda, 7 (MVZ); 3 mi. SW Winnemucca,
4500 ft., 1 (MVZ); 4 mi. SW Winnemucca, 4500 ft., 1 (MVZ); 5 mi. SW
Winnemucca, 4600 ft., 2 (MVZ); 8 mi. E and 1 mi. N Jungo, 4200 ft.,
6 (MVZ); 11 mi. E and 1 mi. N Jungo, 4200 ft., 7 (MVZ); 10 mi. SW
Winnemucca, 4500 ft., 1 (MVZ); 23 mi. NW Battle Mountain, 4 (MVZ).
_Pershing County_: 15 mi. SW Winnemucca, 1 (MVZ). _Lander County_:
Izenhood, 2 (MVZ); 3 mi. S Izenhood, 2 (MVZ).
=Dipodomys ordii attenuatus= Bryant
_Dipodomys ordii attenuatus_ Bryant, Occas. Papers, Museum of
Zool., Louisiana State Univ., no. 5:65, November 10, 1939.
_Type._--Male, no. 80429, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University
of California; Mouth of Santa Helena Canyon, 2146 ft., Big Bend of
the Rio Grande, Brewster County, Texas; obtained on November 19,
1938, by Adrey E. Borell, original no. 5581.
_Range._--Big Bend region of Brewster County, Texas.
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