Onychomys arenicola Mearns 1896

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1061

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Onychomys arenicola Mearns 1896 View in CoL

Onychomys arenicola Mearns 1896 View in CoL , Preliminary diagnosis of new mammals from the Mexican border of the United States: 3 (preprint of Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus ., 19: 137-140).

Type Locality: USA, Texas, El Paso Co., 6 mi (10 km) above El Paso.

Vernacular Names: Chihuahuan Grasshopper Mouse.

Synonyms: Onychomys canus Merriam 1904 ; Onychomys surrufus Hollister 1914 .

Distribution: Chihuahuan Desert: SE Arizona, SC New Mexico, and W Texas, USA, south to Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, and W Tamaulipas, México.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Placed in full synonymy of O. t. torridus by Hollister (1914). Sympatry with O. torridus and karyotypic discrimination reported by Hinesley (1979), who raised O. arenicola to species (also see Baker et al., 1979). Sullivan et al. (1986) and Riddle and Honneycutt (1990) viewed O. arenicola and O. leucogaster as sister taxa, but Allard and Honeycutt (1991) depicted the cladistic topography, based on ribosomal DNA analyses, as ( O. arenicola (O. leucogaster-O. torridus)). Synonymy follows Riddle (1999), who did not indicate subspecies; specimen-based amplification of geographic range still highly welcomed.

References

Baker, R. J., R. K. Barnett, and I. F. Greenbaum. 1979. Chromosomal evolution in grasshopper mice (Onychomys, Cricetidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 297 - 306.

Hinesley, L. L. 1979. Systematics and distribution of two chromosome forms in the southern grasshopper mouse, genus Onychomys. Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 117 - 128.

Hollister, N. 1914. A systematic account of the grasshopper mice. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47: 427 - 489.

Honeycutt, R. L., M. W. Allard, S. V. Edwards, and D. A. Schlitter. 1991. Systematics and evolution of the family Bathyergidae. Pp. 45 - 65, in The biology of the naked mole rat (P. W. Sherman, J. U. M. Jarvis, and R. D. Alexander, eds.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, 518 pp.

Mearns, E. A. 1896. Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals from the Mexican border of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18: 443 - 447.

Riddle, B. R. 1999. Mearn's grasshopper mouse | Onychomys arenicola. Pg. 588, in The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals (D. E. Wilson and S. Ruff, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., xxv + 750 pp.

Sullivan, R. M., D. J. Hafner, and T. L. Yates. 1986. Genetics of a contact zone between three chromosomal forms of the grasshopper mouse (genus Onychomys): A reassessment. Journal of Mammalogy, 67: 640 - 659.