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Subfamily dipodomyinae 



Genus DIPODOMYS " Gray (kangaroo-rats) 

 1841. Dipodomys Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. 7, p. 521, August 



1841. (Type, Dipodomys phillipsii Gray. ) 

 1867. Perodipus Fitzinger, Sitzb. AJcad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat., vol. 56, 



Abth. 1, p. 126. (Type, Dipodomys agilis Gambel. For status, see Grin- 



nell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 32, p. 203, Dec. 31, 1919.) 

 1890. Dipodops Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 3, p. 71, Sept. 11, 1890. 



(Type, Dipodomys agilis Gambel.) 



heermanni — group 

 Dipodomys heermanni heermanni Le Conte* 



1853. D[ipodomys] heermanni Le Conte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



vol.6 (1852-1853), p. 224. 

 1894. Perodipus streatori Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, 



p. 113, June 21, 1894. (Carbondale, Amador County, Calif.) 

 1921. Dipodomys heermanni heermanni Grinnell, Journ. Mamm., vol. 2, 



No. 2, p. 95, May 2, 1921. 

 Type Locality. — Sierra Nevada, Calif.; more exactly, vicinity of Calaveras 

 River, in foothill district, Calaveras County (see Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., vol. 24, No. 1, p. 47, June 17, 1922). Range. — Lower west slope of 

 central Sierra Nevada; recorded from Carbondale, Amador County, south to 

 Coulterville, Mariposa County; vertical range, 500 to 3,200 feet; zonal range, 

 Upper Sonoran, lower edge of Transition locally (Grinnell, Univ. California 

 Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 157, Sept. 26, 1933) . 



Dipodomys heermanni calif ornicus Merriamf* 



1890. Dipodomys californicus Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 4, p. 49, 



Oct. 8, 1890. 

 1899. Dipodomys californicus pallidulus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. 



Club, vol. 1, p. 65, July 31, 1899. (Sites, Colusa County, Calif.) 

 1916. Dipodomys californicus trinitatis L. Kellogg, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., vol. 12, No. 13, p. 366, Jan. 27, 1916. (Helena, Trinity County, 

 Calif. Altitude, 1,405 feet.) 

 1921. Dipodomys heermani californicus Grinnell, Journ. Mamm., vol. 2, No. 



2, p. 95, May 2, 1921. 

 Type Locality. — Ukiah [more exactly, the west edge of main road running 

 south from Ukiah and about a mile south of the then center of town], Mendocino 

 County, Calif. Range. — Northwestern California, chiefly east of humid coastal 

 belt and altogether west of lower Sacramento River; south to Nicasio, Marin 

 County, and Vacaville, Solano County; north to Hornbrook, Siskiyou County; 



09 Groups arranged by Davis, Journ. Mamm., vol. 23, No. 3, p. 329, Aug. 14, 1942. See 

 also Grinnell, Journ. Mamm. vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 94-97, May 2, 1921; and Setzer, Univ. Kansas 

 Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, No. 23, p. 496, Dec. 27, 1949. Subspecies reviewed by Grinnell, 

 Univ. California Publ. Zool. vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 1-124, June 17, 1922, for California; and by 

 Durrant and Setzer, Bull. Univ. Utah, vol. 35, No. 26, pp. 1-39, June 30, 1945, for Utah. 



