Eira barbara senex (Thomas)
Tayra
1900. Galictis barbara senex Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 5:146, January, type from Hacienda Tortugas, approximately 600 ft., Jalapa, Veracruz.
1951. Eira barbara senex, Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., 31:561, July 10.
Distribution in Tamaulipas.—Known only from Pano Ayuctle (Hooper, 1953:4).
Taxidea taxus
Badger
The badger in Tamaulipas is poorly known because only a few specimens have been reported from the state. I have examined only two; one is the skull of a juvenile picked up in the sea along the barrier beach and the other is the skull of an adult male taken in a steel-trap baited with a bird body and rabbit meat. The trap was set in front of a hole in the semidesert area 12 miles south of San Carlos.
On their map 471 Hall and Kelson (1959:927) show a total of five subspecies of Taxidea taxus. They include the northern part of Tamaulipas in the geographic range of T. t. berlandieri. On page 926 Hall and Kelson (op. cit.) list ten additional subspecies described by Schantz. One of them T. t. littoralis (Schantz, 1949:301) was based on specimens from southeastern Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Of the two specimens examined by me the one from the barrier beach is here assigned to T. l. littoralis on geographic grounds, and the other one from the vicinity of San Carlos to T. l. berlandieri.
Taxidea taxus berlandieri Baird
1858. Taxidea berlandieri Baird, Mammals, in Repts. Expl. Surv. ..., 8(1):205, July 14, type from Llano Estacado, Texas, near boundary of New Mexico.
1895. Taxidea taxus berlandieri, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:256, June 29.