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Geographical extension of Chaetodipus fallax (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) in the Baja California Peninsula

  • Issac Camargo , Evelyn Rios and Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 11, 2016

Abstract

We report two new locations for Chaetodipus fallax (Merriam 1889) in Baja California Sur, Mexico: the first, south of San Ignacio; and the second, in the plains of Magdalena Bay. These are the southernmost records for the presence of this species and broaden the species’ previously known distribution range in ~400 km. We suggest that changes in weather conditions could explain the southward expansion of the distribution of C. fallax in Baja California Peninsula.

Award Identifier / Grant number: 151189

Funding statement: We acknowledge the financial support provided by the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (JF209), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (151189).

Acknowledgments:

We thank C. Cornejo, A. Rodríguez-Silva and D. Santos for their field assistance. We express our gratitude to Jorge Salazar for reviewing the specimens of Chaetodipus deposited in the Mammal Collection at Texas Tech University. We acknowledge the financial support provided by the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (JF209), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (151189).

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Received: 2015-7-18
Accepted: 2016-3-18
Published Online: 2016-5-11
Published in Print: 2017-5-1

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