Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
501
755
book chapter
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Arborimus albipes
(Merriam, 1901)
.
Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington
, 14: 125
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
USA
,
California
, Humboldt Co., Humboldt Bay, redwood forest near Arcata
.
DISTRIBUTION: Pacific coastal zone south of Columbia River, from W
Oregon
to extreme NW
California
,
USA
.
COMMENTS: More generalized terrestrial form and habits have suggested a closer relationship to
Phenacomys intermedius
(e.g.,
Hall, 1981
, placed
albipes
and
intermedius
together in subgenus
Phenacomys
).
Johnson and Maser (1982)
enumerated character states that instead support closer congruence of
albipes
with species of
Arborimus
.
However, see
Repenning and Grady (1988)
, who diagnosed the subgenus
Paraphenacomys
of
Phenacomys
to contain
albipes
,
which they viewed as more distantly related to the sister species
intermedius
and
longicaudus
.