The Recent Mammals Of Tamaulipas, Mexico Part 30

=Conepatus leuconotus texensis= Merriam

Eastern Hog-nosed Skunk

1902. _Conepatus leuconotus texensis_ Merriam, Proc. Biol.

Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 15:162, August 6, type from Brownsville, Cameron Co., Texas.

_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--State-wide, except western part.

Three specimens are a.s.signed to this species on the basis of the breadth of M1. In comparison with skulls from the type locality, those of Tamaulipan specimens are slightly smaller and narrower.

_Measurements._--Some cranial measurements of a male adult (old) from ten miles west and two miles south of Piedra are: condylobasal length, 79.0; zygomatic breadth, 52.3; pos...o...b..tal constriction, 22.0; mastoid breadth, 44.2; length of maxillary tooth-row, 24.4; breadth of M1, 9.3.

_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 2: La Pesca, 1; Ejido Eslabones, 10 mi. W, 2 mi. S Piedra, 1200 ft., 1.

Additional record: Near El Mulato (Dice, 1937:250).

=Felis concolor stanleyana= Goldman

Puma

1938. _Felis concolor stanleyana_ Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc.

Was.h.i.+ngton, 51:63, March 18 (renaming of _F. c. youngi_ Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 49:137, August 22, type from Bruni Ranch, near Bruni, Webb Co., Texas).

_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Restricted to mountains of state.

The two specimens examined are skulls only, which were picked up in the field. In general the measurements are like those given by Goldman (1946:233) for the males of _Felis concolor stanleyana_. But the skull from Miquihuana yielded measurements that suggest intergradation between _F. c. stanleyana_ and _F. c. azteca_ of the western mountains of Tamaulipas.

_Measurements._--Two skulls, one from Miquihuana and the second from 9-1/2 mi. SW Padilla, yield measurements as follows: greatest length, 214.0, 213.0; condylobasal length, 195.0, 190.0; zygomatic breadth, 146.0, 140.1; height of skull (frontals to palate), 70.0, 72.4; interorbital constriction, 41.6, 41.4; breadth of nasals (at posterior union between premaxilla and maxilla), 20.1, 17.9; length of maxillary tooth-row, 62.7, 63.3; crown length of P3, 23.3, ----; breadth of P3, 11.9, 12.2; anteroposterior diameter of upper canine, 15.1, 15.3.

_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 2: 9-1/2 mi.

SW Padilla, 800 ft., 1; Miquihuana, 6400 ft., 1.

Additional records: Matamoros (Goldman, 1946:234); Zamorina (Hooper, 1953:4).

=Felis onca veraecrucis= Nelson and Goldman

Jaguar

1933. _Felis onca veraecrucis_ Nelson and Goldman, Jour.

Mamm., 14:236, August 17, type from San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz.

_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--Originally all of state; now restricted to spa.r.s.ely populated areas.

Only one cranium, from the Sierra de Tamaulipas, was examined. It is in good condition but lacks all the teeth except P3 and P4 on the right side. The measurements are larger than those given by Goodwin (1954:15) for a skull from five miles north of Gomez Farias.

_Measurements._--The cranium, s.e.x undetermined, from the Sierra de Tamaulipas, affords measurements as follows: greatest length, 238.0; condylobasal length, 204.0; zygomatic breadth, 166.0; breadth of rostrum, 66.1; interorbital constriction, 48.2; mastoid breadth, 100.7; crown length of carna.s.sial, 24.1.

_Records of occurrence._--One specimen examined from Sierra de Tamaulipas, 2 mi. S, 10 mi. W Piedra.

Additional records: between Aldama and Soto la Marina (Nelson and Goldman, 1933:237); 5 km. N Gomez Farias (Goodwin, 1954:15).

=Felis pardalis albescens= Pucheran

Ocelot

1855. _Felis albescens_ Pucheran, in I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Mammiferes, in Pet.i.t-Thoaurs, Voyage autor du monde sur ... _la Venus_ ..., Zoologie, p. 149, type locality, Arkansas.

1906. _Felis pardalis albescens_, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer.

Mus. Nat. Hist., 22:219, July 25.

_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--All of state, except part west of Sierra Madre Oriental.

Hall and Kelson (1959:961) reported from Tamaulipas two subspecies of _Felis pardalis_. According to Goldman (1943:379) the more northern of the two, _F. p. albescens_, is smaller than the more southern one, _F.

p. pardalis_. The skull examined, of a young female, from 10 miles north of Altamira, in southern Tamaulipas, is small, smaller even than skulls of _albescens_ from Texas used in comparison. For this reason I here a.s.sign the specimen examined to _F. p. albescens_ instead of _F.

p. pardalis_ as did Hall and Kelson (_op. cit._). Hooper (1953:4) and Dice (1937:251) report as _F. p. pardalis_ specimens from 10 miles northeast of Zamorina and others from the Sierra San Carlos. I a.s.sume that specimens from these two places should be referred to _albescens_ since the specimen from 10 miles north of Altamira, the southernmost locality represented in Tamaulipas, is here referred to _albescens_.

_Measurements._--Skull, from 10 mi. N of Altamira, measured as follows: condylobasal length, 97.3; zygomatic breadth, 77.6; squamosal constriction, 50.5; interorbital constriction, 22.2; pos...o...b..tal constriction, 32.1; length of maxillary tooth-row, 34.7; length of upper carna.s.sial crown (outer side), 13.6.

_Records of occurrence._--One specimen examined, from 10 mi.

N Altamira.

Additional records: Matamoros (Goldman, 1943:379); Sierra San Carlos (El Mulato and San Jose) (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.