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Title: The Pigmy Woodrat, Neotoma goldmani, Its Distribution and Systematic Position

Author: Dennis G. Rainey
Rollin H. Baker

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 7, No. 15, pp. 619-624, 2 figs. in text
June 10, 1955

The Pigmy Woodrat, Neotoma goldmani,
Its Distribution and Systematic Position

BY
DENNIS G. RAINEY AND ROLLIN H. BAKER

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1955

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Vol. 7, No. 15, pp. 619-624
Published June 10, 1955

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND. JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1955

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The Pigmy Woodrat, Neotoma goldmani,
Its Distribution and Systematic Position

By

Dennis G. Rainey and Rollin H. Baker

The pigmy woodrat, _Neotoma goldmani_ Merriam, the smallest known
member of the genus, inhabits rocky areas in the elevated desert
regions of the northern part of the Mexican Plateau (Mesa del Norte).
Goldman (N. Amer. Fauna, 31:82, October 10, 1910) had for study ten