Four new rodents from Costa Rica. [1]

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 1227

By

Goodwin, George Gilbert
Underwood, Cecil F., 1867-1943
Smith, Austin Paul

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York City, The American Museum of Natural History, [1943]

Notes

Title from caption.

"April 22, 1943."

"I ... recognize a new race of the spiny pocket mouse of the Heteromys desmarestianus group from the central highlands, a new race of Macrogeomys heterodes from the Reventazon River Valley region, a new race of Macrogeomys cavator from the Caribbean watershed and a new race of the small white-crowned Macrogeomys cherriei from north central Costa Rica on the San Carlos River watershed."

Specimen classified as Macrogeomys cavator nigrescens collected by Austin Smith; other specimens collected by C.F. Underwood.

Subjects

59.9,32(728.6) , Classification , Costa Rica , Forest spiny pocket mice , Mammals , Orthogeomys , Pocket gophers , Rodents

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.1227, 1943

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 31833636