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Title: A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado

Author: Robert B. Finley

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A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) From Colorado

BY
ROBERT B. FINLEY, JR.

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 30, pp. 527-534, 2 figures in text
August 15, 1953

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1953

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 30, pp. 527-534, 2 figures in text
August 15, 1953

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence
1953

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1953

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A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado

By

ROBERT B. FINLEY, JR.

Field and museum studies of the wood rats of Colorado have revealed the
existence of an unnamed subspecies of _Neotoma mexicana_ in eastern
Colorado south of the Arkansas River. The characters of the new
subspecies are most distinctive in the northeastern part of its range
near Two Buttes and Higbee. It differs in cranial characters from _N. m.
fallax_ and _N. m. inopinata_ and averages slightly larger, but cannot
be distinguished by coloration of the pelage.

This heretofore undescribed subspecies may be known as:

#Neotoma mexicana scopulorum# subsp. nov.

_Type._--Mus. Nat. Hist., Univ. Kansas, No. 37137, old adult
male, skin and skull; from 37 deg. 47' N, 103 deg. 28' W, three
miles northwest of Higbee, 4300 feet, Otero County, Colorado;
trapped 16 May 1950 by R. B. Finley, Jr., original number
500516-1.

_Range._--Canyons, mesas, and foothills south of the Arkansas
River, east to Two Bu