Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus) from Mexico and Texas

by Rollin H. Baker

Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus)
from Mexico and Texas

BY
ROLLIN H. BAKER
University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 5, No. 2, pp. 17-24
February 28, 1951
University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1951

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University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor,
A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 5, No. 2, pp. 17-24
February 28, 1951
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1951
23-6626

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Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus)
from Mexico and Texas

BY
ROLLIN H. BAKER

In the spring of 1950, a field party from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History including J. R. Alcorn, W. J. Schaldach, Jr., George Newton, and the author collected mammals in the Mexican state of Coahuila. A few days were spent in the Sierra del Carmen. One morning when examining sets for pocket gophers in these mountains, Alcorn found a mole caught in one of the traps. Subsequent examination discloses that this specimen belongs to a heretofore unknown species which may be named and described as follows:

Scalopus montanus new species