Three New Beavers from Utah
By
STEPHEN D. DURRANT and HAROLD S. CRANE
University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 1, No. 20, pp. 407-417, 7 figs. in text
December 24, 1948
University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1948
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Edward H. Taylor
Volume 1, No. 20, pp. 407-417, 7 figs. in text
December 24, 1948
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1948
22-3716
Three New Beavers from Utah
By
STEPHEN D. DURRANT AND HAROLD S. CRANE
The subspecific identity of beavers from Utah seems never to have been carefully investigated. With the exception of the name Castor canadensis repentinus applied to animals from Zion and Parunuweap canyons by Presnall (1938:14), all other writers from 1897 until the present time, have used for animals from Utah, the name combination Castor canadensis frondator Mearns, the type of which is from Sonora, Mexico. Study of specimens of beavers from Utah, accumulated in the collections of the Museum of Zoölogy, University of Utah, proves these animals to be far more variable than formerly supposed, and discloses the existence of three hitherto unnamed kinds, which are named and described below.