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Title: Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of North American Microtines

Author: E. Raymond Hall

E. Lendell Cockrum

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Comments on

the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution

of North American Microtines

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL AND E. LENDELL COCKRUM

University of Kansas Publications

Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 23, pp. 293-312

November 17, 1952

University of Kansas

LAWRENCE

1952

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,

Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 23, pp. 293-312

November 17, 1952

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

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FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER

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Comments on

the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution

of North American Microtines

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL and E. LENDELL COCKRUM

In preparing maps showing the geographic distribution of North American microtines, conflicting statements in the literature and identifications that, if accepted, would result in improbable geographic ranges have led to the examination of pertinent specimens with the results given below. The studies here reported upon were aided by a contract between the Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, and the University of Kansas (Nr 161-791), by funds provided by the University of Kansas from its Research Appropriation, and by grants for out-of-state field work from the Kansas University Endowment Association. Grateful acknowledgment is made to persons in charge of the collections at each of the following institutions for permission to use the collections under their charge: Biological Surveys Collection, United States National Museum (herein abbreviated USBS); California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ); Chicago Natural History Museum (CNHM); University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (KU); Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ); United States National Museum (USNM); Department of Economic Zoology, University of Wisconsin (UWDEZ); and Zoological Museum, University of Wisconsin (UWZM).

Synaptomys cooperi saturatus Bole and Moulthrop

1942. Synaptomys cooperi saturatus Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publs. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:149, September 11, type from Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois.

When Bole and Moulthrop named Synaptomys cooperi saturatus, with type locality in Illinois, they, in effect, divided the geographic range of Synaptomys cooperi stonei into two parts (see A. B. Howell, N. Amer. Fauna, 50:10 (fig. 2), August 5, 1927) since Bole and Moulthrop (op. cit.) did not assign to any subspecies the specimens from southern Wisconsin that Howell (op. cit.) had identified as S. c. stonei. Bole and Moulthrop's inclusion in their newly named subspecies of a specimen