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Title: Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus) from Mexico and Texas
Author: Rollin H. Baker
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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
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
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
_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull plus body skeleton; no.
35668, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist.; Club Sierra del Carmen,
2 mi. N and 6 mi. W Piedra Blanca, Coahuila, Mexico; 7 April
1950; obtained by J. R. Alcorn, original no. 11093.
_Range._--Known only from the type locality; probably found
in other localities in the Sierra del Carmen of northern
Coahuila, Mexico.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium and slender for t
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