The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, MéxicoAlvarez, Ticul
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The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, México
Alvarez, Ticul
Mammals -- Mexico -- Tamaulipas
_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 2: 3 mi. N
Soto la Marina, 1; 2 mi. NW Soto la Marina, 1.
Additional record: Altamira (Nelson, 1904:109).
=Lepus californicus curti= Hall
1951. _Lepus californicus curti_ Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ.,
Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:42, October 1, type from barrier beach 88
mi. S, 10 mi. W Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Known only by the three
specimens mentioned in the original description from two
barrier islands in northeastern part of state.
_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 3: 88 mi. S,
10 mi. W Matamoros, 2; 90 mi. S, 10 mi. W Matamoros, 1.
=Lepus californicus merriami= Mearns
1896. _Lepus merriami_ Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new
mammals from the Mexican border of the United States, p. 2,
March 25, type from Fort Clark, Kinney Co., Texas.
1909. _Lepus californicus merriami_, Nelson, N. Amer. Fauna,
29:148, August 31.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Northern and western parts of
state.
The two specimens examined, an adult female and a young male, from the
barrier beach 33 miles south of Washington Beach are intergrades
between _L. c. merriami_, reported from the mainland from as near as
Matamoros, and _L. c. curti_, which occurs farther to the south on the
same series of barrier beaches. Of seven characters that seem to
differentiate the two subspecies, the adult female from 33 miles south
of Washington beach resembles _merriami_ in four as follows: tips of
ears black (white in _curti_); nasals long; hind foot long; and
supraoccipital process broad. The specimen resembles _curti_ in
shortness of tail and in having small auditory bullae. Breadth of
rostrum above premolars, the seventh character, is less than in typical
specimens of either of the two subspecies. More material is needed from
the barrier beach in order to establish with certainty the
relationships between jack rabbits occurring there.
_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 4: 33 mi. S
Washington Beach, 2; 12 mi. NW San Carlos, 1300 ft., 2.
Additional records: Nuevo Laredo (Nelson, 1909:150); Mier
(_ibid._); Camargo (_ibid._); Matamoros (Hall, 1951:185);
Tamaulipeca, San Carlos Mts. (_ibid._).
=Spermophilus mexicanus parvidens= Mearns
Mexican Ground Squirrel
1896. _Spermophilus mexicanus parvidens_ Mearns, Preliminary
diagnoses of new mammals from the Mexican border of the
United States, p. 1, March 25, type from Fort Clark, Kinney
Co., Texas.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Northern part of state, south
at least to Xicotencatl.
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