NOTEWORTHY RECORD OF THE YELLOW-NOSED COTTON RAT (SIGMODON OCHROGNATHUS) FROM TRANS-PECOS TEXAS

摘要

The yellow-nosed cotton rat (Sigmodon ochrognathus V. Bailey, 1902) usually is associated with montane grassland, at high elevation, in the southern Trans-Pecos of Texas (Jones & Jones 1992). It is know from the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, the Sierra Vieja, presidio County, and the Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County (Davis & Schmidly 1994).