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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Dipodoidea
--> FAMILY Dipodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Zapodinae
--> GENUS Napaeozapus
SPECIES Napaeozapus insignis
| Author: | Miller, 1891. | | Citation: | Am. Nat., 25: 742. | | Common Name: | Woodland Jumping Mouse | | Type Locality: | Canada, New Brunswick, Restigouche River. | | Distribution: | Canada: SE Manitoba, SW and E Ontario, S and E Quebec north to S Labrador. USA: E Minnesota, N and C Wisconsin, upper peninsular and N lower peninsular Michigan, E Ohio, Pennsylvania; north and east to NW New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, W Massachusetts (isolated population in Martha's Vinyard), Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; south to West Virginia, W Virginia, E Kentucky, E Tennessee, W North Carolina, NW South Carolina, and NE Georgia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | A specimen of Napaeozapus was collected in Park County, Indiana (Lyon, 1942), though subsequent trapping failed to yield further examples (Mumford, 1969). The identity of the specimen was verified by Klingener (1965:645) and Wrigley (1972:42). Systematic revision and biology provided by Wrigley (1972). Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964). Diagnosis, range map, and records provided by Hall (1981). Population in E Kentucky discussed by Meade (1992). Reviewed by Whitaker and Wrigley (1972, Mammalian Species, 14), Whitaker and Hamilton (1998), and Whitaker (1999a). For synonyms see Hall (1981). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
abietorum (Preble, 1899)
algonquinensis Prince, 1941
frutectanus Jackson, 1919
gaspensis Anderson, 1942
roanensis (Preble, 1899)
saguenayensis Anderson, 1942
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