Lagurus curtatus (Cope, 1868)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 488

Lagurus curtatus (Cope, 1868) . Abstr. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 2.

REVIEWED BY: M. D. Carleton (MDC).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Nevada, Esmeralda Co., Pigeon Spring, Mt. Magruder .

DISTRIBUTION: N.W. and E.C. California to C. Washington, W. North Dakota and N. Colorado ( U.S.A.); S.E. Alberta and S.W. Saskatchewan ( Canada); in sagebrush steppe and desert.

COMMENT: Thomas, 1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 9:401, erected the subgenus Lemmiscus ; also see Davis, 1939, The Recent Mammals of Idaho, Caxton Printers: Caldwell, Idaho, 400 pp.; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:176, and MDC considered Lemmiscus a distinct genus; but see Hall, 1981:821. Reviewed by Carroll and Genoways, 1980, Mamm. Species, 124:1-6.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008078001001.