Zapus hudsonius

• Main Author: Mary Ellen Holden
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Dipodidae; Zapus; Zapus hudsonius; Fort Severn; Hudson Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7281831; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039187BEFFD1FFC5A6EB56283AC2FA8A

Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann, 1780). Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:358. TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, Hudson Bay, Fort Severn (see Anderson, 1942b). DISTRIBUTION: USA and Canada: S Alaska to S Coast Hudson Bay to Labrador, south to E North Carolina and NW South Carolina, southwest to NW Alabama, north to NE Mississippi and Tennessee, west to NE Oklahoma, northwest to SE Montana, northeast to SE Saskatchewan, northwest to C and S British Columbia. Isolated populations in S Wyoming, NC Colorado, N and C New Mexico, and EC Arizona. STATUS: IUCN - Endangered as Z. h. luteus. SYNONYMS: acadicus, alascensis, americanus, australis, brevipes, campestris, canadensis, hardyi, labradorius, intermedius, ladas, luteus, microcephalus, ontarioensis, pallidus, preblei, rafinesquei, tenellus (see Hall, 1981). COMMENTS: The S Rocky Mtn subspecies luteus, formerly assigned to princeps, was shown to represent hudsonius by Hafner et al. (1981). Diagnosis, records and range map (excluding Mississippi), provided by Hall (1981). Mississippi record given by Kennedy et al. (1982). Reviewed by Whitaker (1972, Mammalian Species, 11). Published as part of Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, pp. 487-499 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 499, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353072