North American Jumping Mice (Genus Zapus)

by Philip H. Krutzsch

Marginal records.—Quebec: ¹/₂ mi. N Mistassini Post; Valcartier. New York: Spectacle Pond, Brighton Township; Elba. Ontario: St. Thomas; Pancake Bay, Algoma Dist.; Franz; Schreiber. Quebec: Kiamika Lake.

Zapus hudsonius hudsonius (Zimmerman)

Dipus hudsonius Zimmerman, Geog. Geschichte d Menschen u. vierfussigen Thiere, 2:358, 1780.

Dipus labradorius Kerr, Animal Kingdom:276 (based on the Labrador Jerboid Rat of Pennant, 1781—but Preble, N. Amer. Fauna, 15:11, August 8, 1899, states that the specimen came from Hudson Bay), 1792.

Gerbillus canadensis, Desmarest, Mammalogie, 2:321, 1822.

Gerbillus labradorius, Harlan, Fauna Amer., p. 157, 1825.

Meriones labradorius, Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1:144, 1829.

Jaculus labradorius Wagner, Suppl. Schreber’s Saugthiere, 3:294, 1843.

Zapus hudsonius hudsonius, Preble, N. Amer. Fauna, 15:15, August 8, 1899 (part—the part from Northwest Territory, Ontario, Michigan, northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota).