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Genus ONDATRA 48 Link (muskrats) 



1795. Ondatra Link, Beytrage zur Naturgeschichte, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 76. (Type 

 by tautonymy, Castor zibethicus Linnaeus. See International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature, Opinion 55, Smithsonian Inst. Spec. Publ. 

 2169, pp. 126-127, May 12, 1913.) 



Ondatra obscurus (Bangs)'" 



1894. Fiber obscurus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, p. 133, 



Sept. 15, 1894. 

 1912. Ondatra obscurus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 230, Dec. 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Codroy, Newfoundland. Range. — Newfoundland. 



Ondatra zibethicus zibethicus (Linnaeus) * 



1766. [Castor] zibethicus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 79. 



1795. [Ondatra] zibethicus Link, Beytrage zur Naturgeschichte, vol. 1, pt. 2, 

 p. 76. 



1884. Fiber zibethicus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 

 p. 596, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1912. Ondatra zibethica zibethica Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 230, 

 Dec. 31, 1912. 



1940. Ondatra z[ibethicus] zibethicus Davis and Lowery, Journ. Mamm., vol. 

 21, No. 2, p. 212, May 14, 1940. 



Type Locality. — Eastern Canada. (Specimens from eastern New Brunswick 

 assumed to be typical by Hollister, North Amer. Fauna No. 32, p. 16, Apr. 29, 

 1911.) Range. — From New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and presumably south- 

 eastern Manitoba, Canada (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 164, Jan. 24, 1947) , south to northern Georgia except along Atlantic seaboard 

 south of Delaware Bay, Alabama as far as Clarke, Lowndes, and Pike Counties 

 (A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 45, p. 55, Oct. 28, 1921), northern 

 Mississippi, northern Arkansas (Black, Journ. Mamm., vol. 17, No. 1, p. 34, 

 Feb. 17, 1936), and southeastern Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad, Sci., 

 vol. 47, p. 83, September 1944) ; westward to Minnesota (Swanson, Minnesota 

 Dept. Conserv. Techn. Bull. 2, p. 93, 1945) and Iowa east of Des Moines River 

 (Scott, Iowa State College Journ. Sci., vol. 12, No. 1, p. 79, October 1937) . 



Ondatra zibethicus macrodon (Merriam) f * 



1897. Fiber macrodon Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 143, 

 May 13, 1897. 



1911. F[iber] niger Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, Berlin, p. 604. (New 

 Jersey and Delaware.) 



1912. Ondata zibethica macrodon Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 230, 

 Dec. 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Norfolk County, Va. 

 Range. — Middle Atlantic coast region of United States, from Delaware Bay to 

 Pamlico Sound; inland to Washington, D. C, all counties east of Blue Ridge 



49 Revised (under name Fiber) by Hollister, North Amer. Fauna No. 32, pp. 1-47, Apr. 29, 

 1911. For masculine gender of Ondatra see Davis and Lowery, Journ. Mamm., vol. 21, No. 2, 

 p. 213, May 14, 1940. 



