NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF MAMMALS HOUSED IN THE STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY VERTEBRATE NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION

摘要

The Collection of Mammals at the Stephen F. Austin State University Vertebrate Natural History Collection (SFA) was established in the early 1950s by W. H. McCarley and other faculty members of the Department of Biology. Over the next three decades, contributions by R. L. Packard, E. D. Michael and C. D. Fisher brought the collection close to its current size of more than 3,000 specimens. The collection remained without curation from the late 1970s until 2002. At this time, a project was undertaken to inventory and update the SFA. Similar examinations of verte-brate natural history collections by Revelez & Dowler (2001) from Angelo State University, Goetze & Nelson (2004) from Midwestern State University, and Goetz et al. (2004) from Tarleton State University have yielded previously undocumented county records for Texas mammals. This project resulted in the discovery of 17 previously unreported county records for 14 species. These new records represent seven of the 10 major ecological regions of Texas: Pineywoods, Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairies, Cross Timbers and Prairies, Edwards Plateau, Rolling Plains and the High Plains (Schmidly 2004).