University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History
Volume 14, No. 12, pp. 145-159, 1 fig. in text
May 18, 1962
Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico
J. KNOX JONES, JR., TICUL ALVAREZ, AND M. RAYMOND LEE
University of Kansas
Lawrence
1962
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.
Volume 14, No. 12, pp. 145-159, 1 fig. in text
Published May 18, 1962
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1962
29-3000
Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico
BY
J. KNOX JONES, JR., TICUL ALVAREZ, and M. RAYMOND LEE
In several of the past twelve years field parties from the Museumof Natural History have collected mammals in the Mexican state ofSinaloa. Most of the collections contained only a modest numberof specimens because they were made by groups that stopped forshort periods on their way to or from other areas, but several collectionsare extensive. Field work by representatives of this institutionnow is underway in Sinaloa with the aim of acquiring materialssuitable for treating the entire mammalian fauna of that state.
Among the mammals thus far obtained are specimens of twentyspecies that represent significant extensions of known range, are ofespecial taxonomic or zoogeographic interest, or that complementpublished information, and it is these records that are reportedherein.
The following persons obtained specimens mentioned beyond:J. R. Alcorn (1950); J. R. and A. A. Alcorn (1954 and 1955); R. H.Baker and a party of students (1955); W. L. Cutter (1957); S. Andersonand a party of students (1959); M. R. Lee (1960 and 1961);and J. K. Jones, Jr., accompanied by R. R. Patterson and R. G.Webb (1961). The Kansas University Endowment Association andthe American Heart Association provided funds that helped to defraythe cost of field operations.
In the accounts that follow, all measurements are in millimetersand all catalogue numbers refer to the mammal collection of theMuseum of Natural History, The University of Kansas. Placenamesassociated with specimens examined are indicated on theaccompanying map (Fig. 1).
Notiosorex crawfordi (Coues).—A non-pregnant female (75184)was obtained on November 29, 1957, at El Fuerte by W. L.Cutter. Comparison of this specimen with topotypes of N. evotis(see below) and with undoubted examples of N. crawfordi provesour specimen to be referable to the latter. We presume that theshrew reported as evotis on geographic grounds from El Carrizoby Hooper (1961:120) also is referable to crawfordi. Externalmeasurements of our female are: total length, 77; length of tail, 20(tip missing); length of hind foot, 11; length of ear from notch, 8;weight in grams, 4. Cranial measurements of this individual aregiven in Table 1.
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