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+Title: A New Bog Lemming (Genus Synaptomys) From Nebraska
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+A New Bog Lemming (Genus Synaptomys)
+From Nebraska
+
+BY
+
+J. KNOX JONES, JR.
+
+=University of Kansas=
+=Lawrence=
+1958
+
+
+
+
+=University of Kansas Publications=
+=Museum of Natural History=
+
+Volume 9, No. 13,
+pp. 385-388
+
+May 12, 1958
+
+
+Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
+Robert W. Wilson
+
+
+PRINTED IN
+THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
+TOPEKA, KANSAS
+
+1958
+
+27-3033
+
+
+
+
+A New Bog Lemming (Genus Synaptomys)
+
+From Nebraska
+
+
+BY
+
+J. KNOX JONES, JR.
+
+
+In the autumn of 1952, I obtained a southern bog lemming, _Synaptomys
+cooperi_, at Rock Creek State Fish Hatchery, Dundy County, in extreme
+southwestern Nebraska. This locality of record is the westernmost for
+the species in North America. Subsequently, I reported this specimen in
+the literature (Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:486, 1954),
+provisionally assigning it to _Synaptomys cooperi gossii_, the
+subspecies occurring in eastern Nebraska. In late November of 1956, J.
+R. Alcorn collected three additional bog lemmings at the Rock Creek
+Hatchery.
+
+These specimens from Dundy County represent a relict population that
+differs in several characteristics from _S. c. gossii_, and that differs
+also from all other subspecies of the species. This relict population
+is, therefore, here given subspecific recognition.
+
+
+#Synaptomys cooperi relictus#, new subspecies
+
+_Type._--Adult female, skin and skull, University of Kansas Museum of
+Natural History no. 51617, from Rock Creek State Fish Hatchery, 5 mi. N,
+2 mi. W Parks, Dundy County, Nebraska; obtained November 1, 1952, by J.
+Knox Jones, Jr., original no. 995.
+
+_Distribution._--Known only from the type locality.
+
+_Diagnosis._--Size large for the species, both externally and cranially;
+dorsal pelage dark; nasals broadly flared anteriorly (especially broad
+in relation to nasal length); auditory bullae small; molariform
+tooth-rows and incisive foramina long.
+
+_Measurements (in millimeters)._--External measurements of the type
+specimen, followed by those of another adult female (KU 72603), are:
+Total length, 141, 145; length of tail-vertebrae, 24, 21; length of hind
+foot, 20, 20; length of ear from notch, 11, 12. The type specimen
+weighed 46.3 grams. Cranial measurements were taken in the manner
+described by Wetzel (Jour. Mamm., 36:2-3, 1955) except that he did not
+record the occipitonasal length. These cranial measurements of the type
+and KU 72603 are: Occipitonasal length, 30.2, 29.8; condylobasilar
+length, 27.2, 27.1; zygomatic breadth, 18.1, 17.9; lambdoidal breadth,
+14.2, 13.8; length of nasals, 8.2, 8.3; breadth of nasals, 4.2, 4.0;
+length of rostrum, 6.6, 6.6; breadth of rostrum, 6.1, 5.9; breadth of
+upper incisors, 4.6, 4.2; length of maxillary tooth-row, 8.5, 8.4;
+length of incisive foramen, 5.8, 5.5; interorbital breadth, 3.1, 3.5.
+
+_Comparisons._--From _Synaptomys cooperi gossii_ (specimens from eastern
+Nebraska and eastern Kansas, including one topotype), _S. c. relictus_
+differs in: Dorsal coloration, in comparable pelages, darker, venter
+lacking buffy tinge; skull averaging larger in all cranial dimensions
+(except rostral length, which is approximately the same), especially
+breadth of upper incisors and length of molariform tooth-rows; nasals
+broader anteriorly; auditory bullae nearly equal in size, thus
+relatively smaller. From _Synaptomys cooperi paludis_ (holotype and
+paratypes) of Meade County, Kansas, _S. c. relictus_ differs in: Skull
+averaging smaller in all cranial measurements except rostral length and
+breadth of upper incisors, which are approximately the same, and breadth
+of nasals, length of incisive foramina and length of molariform
+tooth-rows, which measure more; nasals relatively (48 per cent of length
+of nasals) as well as actually broader anteriorly; anterior border of
+zygomatic plate more concave; auditory bullae smaller; infraorbital
+foramina larger when viewed anterolaterally. _S. c. relictus_ closely
+resembles _S. c. paludis_ in color and external proportions.
+
+_Remarks._--The total population of _Synaptomys cooperi relictus_ may be
+small because the only suitable habitat known to me for these mice is
+the dense, grassy area, approximately 100 yards wide and one mile long,
+around some of the rearing ponds and along the creek at Rock Creek
+Hatchery. It has been taken there in association with _Cryptotis parva
+parva_, _Blarina brevicauda carolinensis_, _Reithrodontomys megalotis
+dychei_, _Peromyscus maniculatus nebrascensis_, _Microtus ochrogaster
+haydenii_, and another relic, _Microtus pennsylvanicus finitis_. All
+specimens of the newly named bog lemming are from the border zone
+between the wet-substrate habitat of _M. p. finitis_ and the drier
+habitat occupied by _M. o. haydenii_. Approximately 3000 trap nights
+produced the four known specimens.
+
+_S. c. relictus_, like _S. c. paludis_, represents a relict population
+of the more southwesterly distribution of the subgenus _Synaptomys_
+during Wisconsin and post-Wisconsin times. Additional relict populations
+likely will be found in the eastern Great Plains.
+
+The new subspecies is intermediate in some features between _paludis_
+and _gossii_. The type locality is separated from that of _paludis_ (14
+mi. SW Meade, Meade County, Kansas) by a distance of approximately 220
+miles over habitats largely unsuitable for bog lemmings. The nearest
+locality of record for S. c. _gossii_ to the east of the type locality
+of _relictus_ is at Hunter, Mitchell County, Kansas (see Cockrum, Univ.
+Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:196, 1952), approximately 200 miles
+distant. The locality of record of _gossii_ in Nebraska nearest to the
+type locality of _relictus_ is even farther eastward--1 mi. N Pleasant
+Dale, Seward County (KU 50188).
+
+_Specimens examined._--Four, from the type locality (KU 51617,
+72601-03).
+
+_Transmitted March 11, 1958._
+
+
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