The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, MéxicoAlvarez, Ticul
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The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, México
Alvarez, Ticul
Mammals -- Mexico -- Tamaulipas
Additional records: Matamoros (Goldman, 1943:379); Sierra
San Carlos (El Mulato and San José) (Dice, 1937:251); Soto
la Marina (Goldman, 1943:379); 10 mi. NE Zamorina (Hooper,
1934:4).
=Felis wiedii oaxacensis= Nelson and Goldman
Margay
1931. _Felis glaucula oaxacensis_ Nelson and Goldman, Jour.
Mamm., 12:303, August 24, type from Cerro San Felipe, 10,000
ft., near Oaxaca, Oaxaca.
1943. _Felis wiedii oaxacensis_, Goldman, Jour. Mamm.,
24:383, August 17.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Probably along Sierra Madre
Oriental; known only from Rancho del Cielo (Goodwin,
1954:15).
=Felis yaguaroundi cacomitli= Berlandier
Yaguaroundi
1895. _Felis cacomitli_ Berlandier, _in_ Baird, Mammals of
the boundary, _in_ Emory, Rept. U. S. and Mexican boundary
survey 2(2):12, January, type from Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
1905. _Felis yaguaroundi cacomitli_, Elliot, Field Columb.
Mus. Publ. 105, Zool. Ser., 6:370, December 6.
1901. _Felis apache_ Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
14:150, August 9, type from Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Eastern and northern parts of
Sierra Madre Oriental; known only from type locality and
near Gómez Farías (Goodwin, 1954:15).
=Lynx rufus texensis= J. A. Allen
Bobcat
1895. _Lynx texensis_ J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist., 7:188, June 20, based on the description of a bobcat
by Audubon and Bachman, The viviparous quadrupeds of North
America, 2:293, 1851, from "the vicinity of Castroville, on
the headwaters of the Medina [River]," Medina Co., Texas.
1897. _Lynx rufus texensis_, Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses
of new mammals ... from the Mexican boundary line, p. 2,
January 12 (preprint of Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 20:458,
December 24).
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Probably occurs in western
half of state; known only from two localities.
The specimen examined was shot at night at about 3:00 a. m. in the beam
of a headlight in typical scrub "monte." The native name for this
bobcat in Tamaulipas is "gato rabón."
_Measurements._--A male, from Rancho Santa Rosa, measured as
follows: 885; 170; 172; 71; condylobasal length, 105.2;
interorbital constriction, 22.5; postorbital constriction,
34.6; zygomatic breadth, 83.5; squamosal constriction, 51.7;
length of maxillary tooth-row (C-P2), 38.2; length of upper
carnassial (outer side), 14.5.
_Record of occurrence._--One specimen examined from Rancho
Santa Rosa, 360 m.
Additional records: Matamoros (Baird, 1858:96); El Mulato
(Dice, 1937:251).
=Trichechus manatus latirostris= (Harlan)
Manatee
1823. _Manatus latirostris_ Harlan, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia, 3(1):394. Type locality, near the capes of
East Florida.
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