The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, MéxicoAlvarez, Ticul
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The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, México
Alvarez, Ticul
Mammals -- Mexico -- Tamaulipas
Females with embryos or in lactation were collected as follows: Rancho
Pano Ayuctle, March 10, one pregnant female (embryo 40 mm. in
crown-rump length); Río Sabinas, May 23, two pregnant females (embryos
36 and 43 mm.); Sierra de Tamaulipas, June 13, five lactating females
and one female taken alive that gave birth on June 16 to one young;
Cueva La Mula, August, nine lactating females. A male from the Sierra
Madre that was obtained on January 5 had testes 8 mm. long.
The average weight of 21 adults from four miles southwest of
Padilla was 39.1 (32.0-44.5) grams.
_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 107: 3 mi. W,
6.5 mi. N Jiménez, 1250 ft., 1; Río Soto la Marina, 4 mi. SW
Padilla, 800 ft., 23; Cueva La Esperanza, 6 km. SW Rancho
Santa Rosa, 360 m., 3; Cueva Los Troncones, 8 km. N, 12 km.
W Cd. Victoria, Sierra Madre Oriental, 2500 ft., 2; Cd.
Victoria, 1; Sierra Madre Oriental, 1900 ft., 5 mi. S, 3 mi.
W Cd. Victoria, 3; La Mula, 13 mi. N Jaumave, 19; Cueva La
Mula, 10 km. W Joya Verde, 2400 ft., 16; Joya Verde, 35 km.
SW [Cd.] Victoria, 3800 ft., 6; Sierra de Tamaulipas, 1400
ft., 3 mi. S, 16 mi. W Piedra, 10; 70 km. S Cd. Victoria
(_via_ Highway), 6 km. W of Highway, 5; Rancho Pano Ayuctle,
6 mi. N Gómez Farías, 300 ft., 7; cave near headwaters Río
Sabinas, 10 km. N, 8 km. W El Encino, 400 ft., 11.
Additional records (Malaga and Villa, 1957:539): Cueva La
Sepultura, 7.5 km. NNW and hence 7 km. SSW (_via_ highway)
Cd. Victoria; El Ojo de Agua, at km. 10 on Valles-Tampico
highway; Cueva del Abra, 2 km. SSW Cd. Mante.
=Diphylla ecaudata= Spix
Hairy-legged Vampire
1823. _Diphylla ecaudata_ Spix, Simiarum et vespertilionum
Brasiliensium ..., p. 68, type locality, Brazil, restricted
to Rio San Francisco, Baía, by Cabrera (Rev. Mus. Argentino
Cien. Nat., 4:94, March 27, 1958).
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Southern and central parts of
state.
The hairy-legged vampire was first reported from Tamaulipas by de la
Torre (1954:114), who recorded a male from five miles northeast of
Antiguo Morelos, near El Pachón. Later in the same year Martin and
Martin (1954:585) listed another male from El Pachón. Subsequently,
Malaga and Villa (1957:543) reported specimens from two additional
localities in the state, one of which (Cueva de la Sepultura) provides
the northernmost place from which the species has been recorded. Malaga
and Villa remarked that the species was abundant at Cueva de la
Sepultura, being found in small groups clinging to the roof of the
cave. Two females taken there on November 11 carried one embryo each; a
lactating female was taken on November 14. The vampire, _Desmodus
rotundus_, also was taken at Cueva de la Sepultura.
I follow Burt and Stirton (1961:37) in treating _Diphylla ecaudata_ as
a monotypic species.
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