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Aplodontia ruf a rainieri Merriami 



1899. Aplodontia major rainieri Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



13, p. 21, Jan. 31, 1899. 

 1904. [Aplodontia rufa] rainieri Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium .... 



Suppl., fasc. 2, p. 348. 

 1914. Aplodontia chryseola L. Kellogg, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 12, 



No. 5, p. 295, Apr. 15, 1914. (Jackson Lake, Siskiyou County, Calif.) 

 1916. Aplodontia californica columbiana Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 vol. 12, No. 16, p. 499, May 6, 1916. (Roab's Ranch, Hope, British Co- 

 lumbia, Canada. Regarded as identical with rainieri by Anderson, Nat. 

 Mus. Canada, Bull. 102 (1946), p. 168, Jan. 24, 1947; and by Dalquest, 

 Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 369, Apr. 9, 1948.) 

 Type Locality. — Paradise Creek, south side of Mount Rainier, Pierce County, 

 Wash. Altitude, 5,200 feet. Range. — Cascade Mountains in southwestern Brit- 

 ish Columbia, from Skagit on western slope near international boundary north 

 to Hope; only two records from drier eastern slope of Cascades — east side of 

 summit of Hope-Princeton Trail at 5,600 feet, and Stirling Creek near Hedley in 

 middle Similkameen Valley at 1,700 feet (Anderson, loc. cit.) ; southward through 

 higher Cascade Mountains of Washington (Dalquest, loc. cit.) and Oregon to 

 Siskiyou and Trinity Mountain regions of northwestern California, and thence 

 southwest as far as Rio Dell, Eel River, Humboldt County (regarded as rufa bv 

 Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 194, Sept. 26, 1933). ' 



Aplodontia rufa pacifica Merriamf* 



1899. Aplodontia pacifica Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, p. 19, 



Jan. 31, 1899. 

 1918. Aplodontia rufa pacifica Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, 



No. 16, p. 467, May 29, 1918. 

 Type Locality. — Newport, mouth of Yaquina Bay, Lincoln County, Oreg. 

 Range. — Coast region of Oregon from Columbia River (Astoria) southward to 

 near Smith River, Del Norte County, Calif. (Finley, Murrelet, vol. 22, No. 3 (De- 

 cember 1941) , pp. 46, 48-49, Jan. 20, 1942) . 



Aplodontia rufa humboldtiana Taylor* 



1916. Aplodontia humboldtiana Taylor, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, 

 p. 21, Feb, 24, 1916. 



1918. Aplodontia rufa humboldtiana Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 

 17, No. 16, p. 470, May 29, 1918. 



Type Locality. — Carlotta, Humboldt County, Calif. Range. — Extreme north- 

 ern humid coast belt, from Requa, Del Norte County, south to vicinity of Carlotta 

 Humboldt County, and interiorly to vicinity of Weitzpek [Weitchpec], Hum- 

 boldt County; vertical range, below 1,000 feet; zonal range, Canadian and 

 Transition (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 195, Sept. 

 26,1933). 



Aplodontia rufa californica (Peters)* 



1864. H[aplodon] leporinus var. calif ornicus Peters, Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. 



Wiss. Berlin, 1864, p. 179. 

 1886. Aplodontia major Merriamf, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 3, p. 316, 

 May 1886. (Sierra Nevada, Placer County, Calif.) 



