Napaeozapus insignis (Miller, 1891)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 498

Napaeozapus insignis (Miller, 1891) . Am. Nat., 25:742.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, New Brunswick, Restigouche River .

DISTRIBUTION: Canada: SE Manitoba, SW and E Ontario, S and E Quebec north to S Labrador. USA: E Minnesota, N and C Wisconsin, upper peninsular and N lower peninsular Michigan, E Ohio, Pennsylvania; north and east to NW New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, W Massachusetts (isolated population in Martha's Vineyard), Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; south to West Virginia, W Virginia, E Kentucky, E Tennessee, W North Carolina, NW South Carolina, and NE Georgia.

SYNONYMS: abietorum, algonquinensis, frutectanus, gaspensis, roanensis, saguenayensis (see Hall, 1981).

COMMENTS: A specimen of Napaeozapus was collected in Park County, Indiana ( Lyon, 1942), though subsequent trapping failed to yield further examples ( Mumford, 1969). The identity of the specimen was verified by Klingener (1965:645) and Wrigley (1972:42). Systematic revision and biology provided by Wrigley (1972). Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964). Diagnosis, range map, and records provided by Hall (1981). Reviewed by Whitaker and Wrigley (1972, Mammalian Species, 14).