Napaeozapus Preble 1899

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 891

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329099

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scientific name

Napaeozapus Preble 1899
status

 

Napaeozapus Preble 1899 View in CoL

Napaeozapus Preble 1899 View in CoL , N. Amer. Fauna, 15: 33.

Type Species: Zapus insignis Miller 1891

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Napaeozapus insignis (Miller 1891)

Discussion: For verification of the absence of cheek pouches in Napaeozapus see Klingener (1971). Documented in fossil record from the middle Pleistocene ( R. A. Martin, 1994; McKenna and Bell, 1997).

Klingener, D. 1971. The question of cheek pouches in Zapus. Journal of Mammalogy, 52 (2): 463 - 464.

McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.

Preble, E. A. 1899. Revision of the jumping mice of the genus Zapus. North American Fauna, 15: 1 - 41.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

SubOrder

Myomorpha

Family

Dipodidae

SubFamily

Zapodinae