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Title: Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus) from Mexico and Texas

Author: Rollin H. Baker

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Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus)
from Mexico and Texas

BY

ROLLIN H. BAKER

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 2, pp. 17-24
February 28, 1951

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Volume 5, No. 2, pp. 17-24
February 28, 1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1951

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Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus)
from Mexico and Texas

BY

ROLLIN H. BAKER

In the spring of 1950, a field party from the University of Kansas
Museum of Natural History including J. R. Alcorn, W. J. Schaldach, Jr.,
George Newton, and the author collected mammals in the Mexican state of
Coahuila. A few days were spent in the Sierra del Carmen. One morning
when examining sets for pocket gophers in these mountains, Alcorn found
a mole caught in one of the traps. Subsequent examination discloses
that this specimen belongs to a heretofore unknown species which may be
named and described as follows:

=Scalopus montanus= new species

_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull plus body skeleton; no.
35668, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist.; Club Sierra del Carmen,
2 mi. N and 6 mi. W Piedra Blanca, Coahuila, Mexico; 7 April
1950; obtained by J. R. Alcorn, original no. 11093.

_Range._--Known only from the type locality; probably found
in other localities in the Sierra del Carmen of northern
Coahuila, Mexico.

_Diagnosis._--Size medium and slender for t