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Didelphis marsupialis pigra Bangs* 



1893. Didelphis virginiana pigra Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 28, 



p. 172, March 1898. (Regarded as identical with virginiana by Hershkovitz, 



Fieldiana-Zool, Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 550, July 



10, 1951.) 



Type Locality. — Oak Lodge, East Peninsula, opposite Micco, Brevard County, 



Fla. Range. — Florida, lower coast region of Georgia, and low Gulf coast belt 



through southern Louisiana (Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 



No. 13, p. 216, Nov. 22, 1943) to Matagorda Bay, and north at least to Black 



Creek, northeast of Sour Lake, Hardin County, Tex. (V. Bailey, North Amer. 



Fauna No. 25, p. 57, Oct. 24, 1905) . 



Didelphis marsupialis texensis J. A. Allenf * 



1901. Didelphis marsupialis texensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 14, p. 172, June 15, 1901. (For status, see Davis, Journ. Mamm., vol. 

 25, No. 4, pp. 374-375, Dec. 12, 1944. Regarded as identical with cali- 

 fornica by Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 

 670, vol. 31, p. 548, July 10, 1951.) 



1902. Didelphis mes-americana texensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 16, p. 256, Aug. 18, 1902. 



Type Locality. — Brownsville, Cameron County, Tex. Range. — Coast region 

 of Texas, east at least to Rockport, Aransas County (J. A. Allen, loc. cit.) ; Rio 

 Grande Valley northwestward to Brewster County (Borell and Bryant, Univ. 

 California Publ. Zool., vol. 48, No. 1, p. 6, Aug. 7, 1942) and Monahans, Ward 

 County, Tex. (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), p. 7, 

 Mar. 1, 1932) ; south at least to San Carlos Mountains in central Tamaulipas 

 (Dice, Univ. Michigan Stud., Sci. Ser., vol. 12, p. 249, 1937) and to Rio Ramos, 

 20 km. northwest of Montemorelos in central Nuevo Leon, Mexico (Davis, op. 

 cit., p. 374) . 

 Didelphis marsupialis mesamericana Oken* 



1816. Did[elphys] mes-americana Oken, Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, 

 pt. 3 (Zoologie), sec. 2, p. 1152. 



1833. Didelphis californica Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1833, pt. 1, 

 p. 40, May 17, 1833. ("That part of California which adjoins to Mexico." 

 Restricted to Sonora, Mexico, by Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago 

 Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, pp. 548, 550, July 10, 1951.) 



1902. Didelphis mes-americana J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 16, p. 256, Aug. 18, 1902. 



Type Locality. — Northern Mexico. Range. — Interior tablelands of Mexico 

 from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (Davis, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 4, p. 374, Dec. 

 12, 1944), and Batopilas, Chihuahua, south through Durango, Zacatecas, 

 Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, and Mexico to Puebla and Morelos (J. A. 

 Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 14, p. 167, June 15, 1901; Davis, loc. 

 cit.) ; and from Oputo, Rio de Bavispe (V. Bailey, Journ. Mamm. vol. 14, 

 No. 3, p. 243, Aug. 17, 1933), and Ures and Hermosillo, Rio Sonora, in Sonora 

 (Burt, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 39, p. 18, Feb. 15, 1938) south 

 through Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Guerrero to Tuxtepec, San 

 Domingo, and Tehuantepec in Oaxaca (J. A. Allen, 1901, loc. cit.; and Bull. 



