A morphological assessment of Osgood’s 1918 application of Otognosis longimembris Coues, 1875 (Rodentia, Heteromyidae), with the proposal of a neotype

Title Variants

Alternative: Osgood’s Application of Otognosis Coues, 1875

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 4018

By

Patton, James L. , author

Gardner, Alfred L. , author
Hawkins, Melissa TR , author

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, [2024]

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"June 21, 2024."

We review the current usage of the species-group names Perognathus inornatus Merriam, 1889, for the San Joaquin Pocket Mouse and P. longimembris (Coues, 1875) for the Little Pocket Mouse. Wilfred Osgood, in two papers published 18 years apart at the beginning of the 20th Century, provided conflicting applications of these names, with his second assignments in common use since 1918. Contrary to this prevailing usage, we show that the skull of the holotype of longimembris is best allocated to the San Joaquin form, as Osgood had originally concluded in 1900. To maintain stability and universality of current usage (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: Article 75.6), we propose a neotype from the Antelope Valley of California as a replacement for Coues’s holotype of longimembris.

Subjects

Classification , Heteromyidae , Morphology , Perognathus

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no. 4018

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/4018.1
OCLC: 1441097285