A New Species of Wood Rat (Neotoma) from Northeastern Mexico

University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History
Volume 14, No. 11, pp. 139-143 April 30, 1962
University of Kansas Lawrence 1962
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.
Volume 14, No. 11, pp. 139-143 Published April 30, 1962
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1962 29-2891

The White-throated woodrat, Neotoma albigula , has been known previously from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas by only eight individuals reported by Goldman (N. Amer. Fauna, 31:37, October 19, 1910), which were assigned to Neotoma albigula leucodon (type locality, city of San Luis Potosí, México). Additional specimens from southwestern Tamaulipas, obtained in recent years by representatives of the Museum of Natural History, along with specimens from parts of Nuevo León and Coahuila, represent an unnamed subspecies, which is named and described as follows:
Neotoma albigula subsolana new subspecies
Type. —Male, adult, skin and skull, No. 56950, Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas, from Miquihuana, 6400 ft., Tamaulipas; obtained on July 20, 1953, by Gerd H. Heinrich, original number 7553B.
Geographic distribution. —Sierra Madre Oriental from southeastern Coahuila to southwestern Tamaulipas.