Zapus hudsonius
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Description
Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann, 1780). Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:358.
TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, Hudson Bay, Fort Severn (see Anderson, 1942b).
DISTRIBUTION: USA and Canada: S Alaska to S Coast Hudson Bay to Labrador, south to E North Carolina and NW South Carolina, southwest to NW Alabama, north to NE Mississippi and Tennessee, west to NE Oklahoma, northwest to SE Montana, northeast to SE Saskatchewan, northwest to C and S British Columbia. Isolated populations in S Wyoming, NC Colorado, N and C New Mexico, and EC Arizona.
STATUS: IUCN - Endangered as Z. h. luteus.
SYNONYMS: acadicus, alascensis, americanus, australis, brevipes, campestris, canadensis, hardyi, labradorius, intermedius, ladas, luteus, microcephalus, ontarioensis, pallidus, preblei, rafinesquei, tenellus (see Hall, 1981).
COMMENTS: The S Rocky Mtn subspecies luteus, formerly assigned to princeps, was shown to represent hudsonius by Hafner et al. (1981). Diagnosis, records and range map (excluding Mississippi), provided by Hall (1981). Mississippi record given by Kennedy et al. (1982). Reviewed by Whitaker (1972, Mammalian Species, 11).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353072 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA8FFC6FFDDFFC9A60C55283C5CFFE5 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/039187BEFFD1FFC5A6EB56283AC2FA8A (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205129999 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193480/taxon/039187BEFFD1FFC5A6EB56283AC2FA8A.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dipodidae
- Genus
- Zapus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Zimmermann
- Species
- hudsonius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann, 1780) sec. Ellen, 1993
References
- Anderson, R. M. 1942 b. Six additions to the list of Quebec mammals with descriptions of four new forms. Annual Report, Provancher Society of Natural History of Canada, Quebec, 1941: 31 - 43 (English); 45 - 57 (French).
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Hafner, D. J., K. E. Petersen, and T. L. Yates. 1981. Evolutionary relationships of jumping mice (genus Zapus) of the southwestern United States. Journal of Mammalogy, 62 (3): 501 - 512.
- Kennedy, M. L., G. A. Heidt, and P. K. Kennedy. 1982. First record of the meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius) in Mississippi. Journal Mississippi Academy of Science, 27: 149 - 150.