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Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858

Description

Synaptomys cooperi Baird, 1858. Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):558.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, New Hampshire, Carroll Co., Jackson (as fixed by Bole and Moulthrop, 1942:146).

DISTRIBUTION: Midwestern and E USA through SE Canada, including Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island; as far south as W North Carolina and NE Arkansas; outlying populations in SW Kansas and W Nebraska.

SYNONYMS: fatuus, gossii, helaletes, jesseni, kentucki, paludis, relictus, saturatus, stonei.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Synaptomys. Geographic diversification evaluated by Wetzel (1955). See Linzey (1983, Mammalian Species, 210).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 534, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Synaptomys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Baird
Species
cooperi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Synaptomys cooperi Baird, 1858 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Bole, B. J., Jr., and P. N. Moulthrop. 1942. The Ohio Recent mammal collection in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Scientific Publication of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 5: 83 - 181.
  • Wetzel, R. M. 1955. Speciation and dispersal of the southern bog lemming, Synaptomys cooperi (Baird). Journal of Mammalogy, 36: 1 - 20.
  • Linzey, A. V. 1983. Synaptomys cooperi. Mammalian Species, 210: 1 - 5.