178 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



1909. Sylvilagus palustris paludicola Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 

 269, Aug. 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Fort Island, near Crystal River, Citrus County, Fla. Range. — 

 Peninsular Florida and adjacent coast islands, north along east coast at least to 

 San Mateo, Putnam County, and on west side to Manatee Spring, Levy County, 

 and to Gainesville, Alachua County (Blair, Journ. Mamm., vol. 17, No. 3, p. 

 197, Aug. 17, 1936) ; vertical range, from sea level up to about 100 feet; zonal 

 range, extreme Lower Austral and upper border of Humid Tropical (Nelson, 

 loc. cit.). 



Order RODENTIA 63 



Suborder 5CIUROMORPHA 



Superfamily APLODONTOIDEA 



Family Aplodontiidae 



Genus APLODONTIA ei Richardson (mountain-beavers) 

 1829. Aplodontia Richardson, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, p. 334, January 1829. 

 (Type, Aplodontia leporina Richardson — Anisonyx rufa Rafinesque.) 



Aplodontia rufa rufa (Rafinesque) * 



1817. Anisonyx ? rufa Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., vol. 2, p. 45, Novem- 

 ber 1817. 

 1884. Haplodon rufus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), p. 



596, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1886. Aplodontia rufa Merriam, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 3, p. 316, 



May 1886. 

 1899. Aplodontia olympica Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, 

 p. 20, January 31, 1899. (Quinault Lake, Grays Harbor County, Wash. 

 Regarded as identical with rufa by Dalquest and Scheffer, Murrelet, vol. 26, 

 No. 3, pp. 36-37, Dec. 28, 1945.) 

 1916. Aplodontia rufa grisea Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 12, No. 



16, p. 497, May 6, 1916. (Renton, near Seattle, King County, Wash.) 

 Type Locality. — Neighborhood of the Columbia River, Oreg. (Specimens 

 from Marmot, west slope of Mount Hood, Clackamas County, regarded as typical 

 by Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, No. 16, p. 455, May 29, 1918). 

 Range. — From Chilliwack-Sumas region on western side of Cascade Mountains 

 in southwestern British Columbia southward through western Washington, be- 

 tween Puget Sound and Cascade Mountains, to Columbia River; marginal lo- 

 calities are Bellingham, Forks of Skykomish River, north bend and mouth of 

 Kalama River (Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 69, Apr. 

 9, 1948). 



63 Supergeneric groups revised by Miller and Gidley, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 8, 

 pp. 431-448, July 19, 1918. See also Simpson, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 85, pp. 

 76-100, Oct. 5, 1945, and Ellerman, The families and genera of living rodents, vol. 1, June 8, 

 1940; vol. 2, Mar. 21, 1941 ; vol. 3. pt. 1. March 1949. 



64 Revised by Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, No. 16, pp. 435-504, May 29, 

 1918. See also Finley, Murrelet, vol. 22, No. 3 (December 1941) pp. 45-49, Jan. 20, 1942. 



