An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacan, Mexico Part 13

Collared Peccary; Spanish, Jabali del Collar; Tarascan, cuchjeramba (cucheramba) or Juateanapu (whatalanapu)

_Taya.s.su angulatus humeralis_ Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc.

Was.h.i.+ngton, 14:122, July 19, 1901, type from Armeria, Colima.

_Range._--Approximately southwestern half of state.

_Remarks._--Under date of October 11, 1948, Henry W. Setzer (_in litt._) states that four specimens of this species, in the Biological Surveys Collection in the United States National Museum, were taken at La Salada, by Nelson and Goldman, and bear catalogue numbers 126156, 126157, 126158 and 126159. No. 126158 is a female taken on March 19, 1903. The other three specimens are males taken on March 17, 1903. We did not see any animals of this species in our own field work, and the only materials from Michoacan actually examined by one of us (Hall) are the skulls of nos. 126156 and 126158, referred to above, from the Biological Surveys Collection.

=Odocoileus virginia.n.u.s sinaloae= Allen

White-tailed Deer; Spanish, Venado Cola Blanca; Tarascan, Asuni (Ashumi)

_Odocoileus sinaloae_ Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19:613, November 14, 1903, type from. Esquinapa, Sinaloa.

_Range._--Probably statewide.

_Remarks._--Through the courtesy of Dr. A. Remington Kellogg we learn that in a ma.n.u.script on the deer of the _Odocoileus virginia.n.u.s_ group, he and the late Major E. A. Goldman had recorded specimens, in the Biological Surveys Collection of the United States National Museum, as follows: Nahuatzin, 8,500 ft., nos. 35924/48232, and 35925/48233; Los Reyes, 5,000 ft., no. 165673; Patzcuaro, 7,000 ft., no. 35535/47819; and Uruapan, 4,500 ft., no. 13060. We have not anywhere seen the name combination _Odocoileus virginia.n.u.s sinaloae_ but from the original description we judge that _Odocoileus sinaloae_ is to be arranged as a geographic race of the wide-ranging species _Odocoileus virginia.n.u.s_ as that species is now understood.

=Dasypus novemcinctus mexica.n.u.s= Peters

Nine-banded Armadillo; Spanish, Armadillo; Tarascan, Isingu (Esingo)

_Dasypus novemcinctus mexica.n.u.s_ Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss.

Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, p. 180, 1864 (name restricted by Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 25:52, October 24, 1905, to the subspecies occurring at Colima).

_Range._--Probably statewide.

_Specimens examined_, 2; nos. 51392 from Tancitaro and 51964 from Apatzingan, 1,040 ft.

_Remarks._--The female from Tancitaro is immature as indicated by the wide-open sutures between the bones of the skull which in over-all length is only 72.8 mm. The male from Tancitaro is older and the over-all length of the skull is 98.33 mm. Geographic considerations alone are responsible for our use of the subspecific name _mexica.n.u.s_; we do not know the morphological features which distinguish _mexica.n.u.s_ from other named subspecies.

LITERATURE CITED

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ALLEN, G. M.

1916. Bats of the genus Corynorhinus. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College, 60:333-356, 1 pl., April, 1916.

BAILEY, V.

1900. Revision of American voles of the genus Microtus. N. Amer.

Fauna, 17:1-88, 5 pls., 17 figs. in text, June 6, 1900.

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Biol. Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 15:101-116, June 2, 1902.

BENSON, S. B.

1947. Description of a mastiff bat (genus _Eumops_) from Sonora, Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 60:133-134, December 31, 1947.

DAVIS, W. B.

1944. Notes on Mexican mammals. Jour. Mamm., 25:370-403, 1 fig. in text, December 12, 1944.

ELLIOT, D. G.

1903. A list of a collection of Mexican mammals with descriptions of some apparently new forms. Field Columb. Mus. Pub. No. 71, zool. ser., 3(no. 8):141-149, February, 1903.

GOLDMAN, E. A.

1911. Revision of the spiny pocket mice (genera Heteromys and Liomys) N. Amer. Fauna, 34:1-70, 3 pls. 6 figs. in text, September 7, 1911.

1938. List of the gray foxes of Mexico. Jour. Was.h.i.+ngton Acad.

Sci., 28:494-498, November 15, 1938.

1942. Notes on the coatis of the Mexican mainland. Proc. Biol.

Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 55:79-82, June 25, 1942.

HALL, E. R.

1948. Two new meadow mice from Michoacan, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1:423-427, 6 figs. in text, December 24, 1948.

1949. A new subspecies of cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, from Michoacan, Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 62:149-150, 3 figs. in text, August, 23,1949.

HALL, E. R., and VILLA-R., B.

1948. A new pocket gopher (Th.o.m.omys) and a new spiny pocket mouse (Liomys) from Michoacan, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 1:249-255, 6 figs. in, text, July 26, 1948.

1949. A new harvest mouse from Michoacan, Mexico. Proc. Biol.

Soc. Was.h.i.+ngton, 62:163-164, August 23, 1949.