University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 9, No. 2, pp. 69-80
December 10, 1955
Additional Records and Extensions of
Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah
BY
STEPHEN D. DURRANT, M. RAYMOND LEE, AND
RICHARD M. HANSEN
University of Kansas
Lawrence
1955
Additional Records and Extensions of
Known Ranges of Mammals From Utah
BY
STEPHEN D. DURRANT, M. RAYMOND LEE, AND
RICHARD M. HANSEN
The Museum of Zoology, University of Utah, contains approximately 5000 specimens in addition to those available to Durrant (1952) when he prepared his account of the "Mammals of Utah, Taxonomy and Distribution." Study of this material discloses two kinds of mammals not heretofore known to occur in Utah, and extends the known limits of occurrence of many others as is set forth below in what may be thought of as a supplement to the aforementioned report of 1952.
Our study was financed in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Sorex vagrans obscurus Merriam. Dusky Shrew.—Twelve specimens are available from the Abajo Mountains and Elk Ridge, San Juan County, Utah, as follows: North Creek, 6 mi. W Monticello, 8300 ft.; 1 mi. S Twin Peaks, 9500 ft.; Kigalia R. S., 8000 ft.; and Gooseberry R. S., 8250 ft. Previously, the only known specimens from east of the Colorado River in Utah were from the La Sal Mountains in extreme eastern Grand County and extreme northern San Juan County. These twelve specimens extend the known area of occurrence of the species in Utah approximately 80 miles to the south, and indicate that this shrew occurs throughout the state in favorable habitats.