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Notes On The Biology Of The Central American Squirrel, Sciurus Richmondi, J. Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Additional specimens of Sciurus richmondi are reported, along with comments on variation, distribution, reproduction and molt in this little known squirrel. As presently understood, S. richmondi occurs only in the Caribbean rain forests of Nicaragua. Significant secondary sexual variation in adults was found only in zygomatic breadth, in which females are the larger. Available evidence reveals that the breeding season extends at least from February to September, and suggests two seasonal molts annually.

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 3, No.2. June, 1971

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Environmental Rights ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

RIVER BASINS PLANNING ▪ H. A. Hendrickson

WATER RESOURCE PLANNING GONE AMUCK ▪ Charles H. Stoddard

THE INTERACTION OF CITIZENS' GROUPS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WITH RESPECT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ▪ Robert L. Burgess

WORDS AND MEANINGS ▪ Paul T. Crary

ENFORCEMENT OF NORTH DAKOTA ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS ▪ Robert E. Beck

BIRDS OBSERVED IN NORTH DAKOTA DURING THE WINTER OF 1970-71 ▪ John T. Lokemoen and Paul E. Springer

STATUS OF CLARK'S NUTCRACKER IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Lewis W. Oring and Robert W. Seabloom

WINGED ANTS AS FISH FOOD ▪ Charles H. …

A Revision Of The Feather Mite Genus Brephosceles (Proctophyllodidae: Alloptinae), Paul C. Peterson

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A systematic revision is presented for the genus Brephosceles. Data on external morphology, zoogeography, and host-parasite relationships are included. Thirteen named and thirty new species are recognized and described. The new species and the type hosts are: Brephosceles afribycis, from Afribyx lateralis (Charadriidae); B. anhimae, from Anhima cornuta (Anhimidae); B. belonopteri, from Belonopterus chilensis cayennensis (Charadriidae); B. bilobatus, from Puffinus puffinus (Procellariidae); B. chilensis, from Belonopterus chilensis lampronotus (Charadriidae); B. collaracus, from Charadrius collaris (Charadriidae); B. constrictus, from Charadrius bicinctus (Charadriidae); B. diomedei, from Diomedea chrysostoma (Diomedeidae); B. discidicus, from Cygnus bewickii (Anatidae); B. disjunctus, from Pterodroma leucoptera hypoleuca (Procellariidae); …

A Generic Revision Of The Pterodedinae, A New Subfamily Of Feather Mites (Sarcoptiformes: Analgoidea), Chong K. Park, Warren T. Atyeo

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The generic rev1s1on of the Pterodectinae, new subfamily of the Proctophyllodidae, is based on 88 named and over 160 new species. Included are morphology, host-parasite relationships, diagnoses of four named and eight new genera, and illustrations of each type species. The named genera are:

Anisodiscus Gaud and Mouchet, 1957; Montesauria Oudemans, 1905; Proterothrix Gaud, 1968; Pterodectes Robin, 1877. The new genera and their type species are: Dolichodectes, Proctophyllodes (Pterocolus) edwardsi Trouessart, 1885; Megalodectes, Proctophyllodes (Pterodectes) major Trouessart, 1885; Neodectes, Proctophyl/odes (Pterodectes) securiclatus Trouessart and Neumann, 1888; Pedanodectes, Pterodectes hologaster Gaud, 1953; Syntomodectes, Proctophyllodes (Pterodectes) selenurus Trouessart, 1885; Toxerodectes, Pterodectes gladiger …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 3, No.1 March, 1971

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: One House for Natural Resource Management ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

CHECKLIST OF BIRDS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert E. Stewart

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE WOOD DUCK IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Edmund A. Hibbard

NOTES ON DANDELIONS ▪ O. A. Stevens

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA—1970 ▪ Robert N. Randall

THE EROSION OF ONE OF MAN'S MOST PRECIOUS NATURAL RESOURCES: HIS FREEDOM OF CHOICE ▪ Gordon L. Iseminger

NOTEWORTHY PLANTS OF THE NORTH DAKOTA PRAIRIE COTEAU FOREST ▪ W. Carter Johnson

NOTE — Duck mortality caused by wind ▪ Harold Kantrud

Morphological Variation In Stenoderma Rufum, J, Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways, Robert J. Baker

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

For more than 100 years, the red fruit-eating bat, Stenoderma rufum Desmarest, 1820, was known only by a specimen of unknown geographic provenience. Anthony ( 1918, 1925) rediscovered Stenoderma in Puerto Rican cave deposits, but the first living specimens to be reported since the original description were taken on St. John in the Virgin Islands (Hall and Bee, 1960). Subsequently, Tamsitt and Valdivieso (1966) recorded living representatives from Puerto Rico-from a population later named and described as a distinctive subspecies, Stenoderma rufum darioi, by Hall and Tamsitt (1968). The latter authors also reported a specimen of S. r. rufum …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 2, Nos. 3 And 4 September–December, 1970

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Ecology and Environmental Education ▪ Keith R. Stamm

PEOPLE IN PERIL ▪ Thomas L. Kimball

MEN IN MAN'S ENVIRONMENT ▪ Robert L. Burgess

ENERGY AND MAN'S ENVIRONMENT ▪ Dale Henegar

MINERALS AND SOILS IN MAN'S ENVIRONMENT ▪ Wilson M. Laird

WATER IN MAN'S ENVIRONMENT ▪ Norman Peterson

THE ATMOSPHERE IN MAN'S ENVIRONMENT ▪ Gene A. Christianson

WHY ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES? ▪ James R. Reilly

ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ▪ William P. Eastwood

MASS MEDIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ▪ Richard Palmer

THE JUDGMENT OF THE JACKAL ▪ C. Benson Thomerson

THE ROLE OF COLLEGES AND …

Machairodont Cats From The Early Pleistocene Broadwater And Lisco Local Faunas, C. Bertrand Schultz, Larry D. Martin

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A new species of Ischyrosmilus (I. crusafonti) is reported from the Early Pleistocene Broadwater Local Fauna of Morrill County, Nebraska. Ischyrosmilus sp. is reported from the Early Pleistocene Lisco Local Fauna. Megantereon is reported from the Broadwater Local Fauna and this is the first record of the genus from North America.

Harvest Mice (Genus Reithrodontomys) Of Nicaragua, J. Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Harvest mice of the genus Reithrodontomys first were reported from Nicaragua by Oldfield Thomas (1907), who originally described Reithrodontomys sumichrasti modestus based on a single specimen from Jinotega. J. A. Allen (1908, 1910) recorded additional specimens of R. s. modestus, which still was the only species known from the country when A. H. Howell (1914) revised the genus Reithrodontomys. In his thorough review of Latin American harvest mice, Hooper (1952) added a second species, Reithrodontomys mexicanus lucifrons, to the Nicaraguan fauna, and Englert (1959) and Anderson and Jones (1960) recorded three additional kinds. The present report treats …

Bibliography Of Diseases And Parasites Of Marine Fish And Shellfish (With Emphasis On Commercially Important Species), Carl J. Sindermann

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

The literature on diseases and parasites of marine animals has been accumulating at an accelerating rate in recent decades, and at a seemingly geometrical rate in the past few years. Reviews of selected aspects of the subject have appeared (Cheng, 1967; Sindermann, 1966; Sindermann and Rosenfield, 1967). References listed in these papers include a significant, but still a small part, of the available literature. With the proliferation of journals in many languages throughout the world, a complete bibliography, even in a narrow area of research, is almost an impossibility. Then too, the daily appearance of new published information represents an …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 2, No.2 June, 1970

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Ecocide on the Sheyenne? ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

NEW RECORDS OF VASCULAR PLANTS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert E. Stewart

SOME LOCAL NATIVE PLANT LOSSES AND SOME SAL V AGE ▪ O. A. Stevens

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert N. Randall

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN IN COMMUNITY PLANNING ▪ Cameron Man

DISTRIBUTION OF THE SCIRPUS VALIDUS COMPLEX IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Richard L. Ward

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 2, No. 1. March, 1970

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Speaking of Ecologists ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

NEEDED: AN ETHICAL BASIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ▪ Gordon L. Iseminger

THE POPULATION PARADOX ▪ Gary L. Pearson

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS—A CALL TO ACTION ▪ Glen A. Sherwood

NORTH DAKOTA—1970 ▪ Philip B. Aus

A New Tribe Of Saber-Toothed Cats (Barbourofelini) From The Pliocene Of North America, C. Bertrand Schultz, Marian R. Schultz, Larry D. Martin

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A new genus of Pliocene Saber-toothed felid, Barbourofelis, is proposed and two new species B. fricki and B. morrisi are described. These two forms and other described material represent an unusual lineage of felids with long sabers, shortened crania, and massive postorbital bars. The tribal name Barbourofelini is proposed for this lineage which is presently known in North America from deposits ranging in age from Clarendonian through Kimballian. The Barbourofelini apparently migrated from Eurasia to North America in the Late Miocene or Early Pliocene. Sansanosmilus of the French Vindobonian appears to represent the ancestral stock of these cats. The …

Some Ecological Relations Of Fairy Shrimps In Alkaline Habitats Of Nebraska, D. B. Mccarraher

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

Ecological studies on the distribution of fairy shrimps have been made from 246 sites in the sandhills region of Nebraska. New records for Nebraska have been established for Artemia salina, Branchinecta campestris, B. lindahli, B. mackini and Cyzicus mexicanus. Seasonal populations of shrimp have been located in habitats containing permanent fish populations. Water mineralization was the dominant environmental condition related to the distribution of phyllopods with sodium and potassium compounds predominating in the strongly alkaline lakes. Several of the Artemia lakes were classified as hydroxide sites. Many of the alkaline ponds, where B. lindahli and B. campestris flourish, are …

Chiropteran Systematics, J. Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Provides an overview of the field of chiropteran systematics in a way that will introduce the non-chiropterologist to the subject. By way of example, we have alluded to several aspects of taxonomic research at different levels in the hierarchy. Recourse to the publications cited at the appropriate places in the text will amplify our remarks and provide a solid background in the current work of the discipline.

Basically, taxonomic characters are where the taxonomist finds them; some, but not all, will prove useful also in elucidating relationships and evolutionary descent of taxa. Much remains to be done in these areas, …

Ultrasonic Shark Tag Monitoring System Technical Report, Thomas Thorson, Gordon Esterberg, James Johnson

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Description of System
Ultrasonic Tag
Ultrasonic Tag Monitor
Hyrdophones
Receiver-Recorder Unit
Receiver
Recorder
Batteries
Operation
Figures
Distribution List
Documentation Control Data – R & D (DD Form 1473)

A New Rhinoceros From The Nebraska Miocene, Lloyd G. Tanner

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A new species of rhinoceros, Menoceras marslandensis, is here proposed. It is based upon a nearly complete skull from the upper part of the Marsland Formation, Hemingford Group (Miocene), of Box Butte County, Nebraska. The new species was probably derived from Menoceras arikarense (Barbour), collected from the Agate Springs Quarries (Arikaree Group, Harrison Formation) of Sioux County, Nebraska, with which both Diceratherium niobrarensis Peterson and D. cooki Peterson are likely synonymous. From Menoceras arikarense, the presumed ancestral stock, Menoceras marslandensis differs in possessing the following characters: (1) very long, fused but slightly cleft, nasals, with flattened, rugose areas …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No.4. December 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Restoring Beauty to the Human Environment ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

A REQUIEM FOR THE PRAIRIE ▪ Hugh H. Iltis

BIRDING IN MY BACK YARD ▪ Mrs. George A. Anderson

OCCURRENCE OF THE CECROPIA AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN SILK MOTHS IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ James Oberfoell

Revisions Of Two Subgenera Of Andrena: Micrandrena Ashmead And Derandrena, New Subgenus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), David O. Ribble

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

This paper is a monographic revision of the bee subgenera Micrandrena Ashmead and Derandrena, new subgenus, of the genus Andrena in North America. Both subgenera occur in the New World and Micrandrena also occurs in the Old World. Twenty-eight species are treated, of which twelve are new: Andrena (Micrandrena) annectens, ishii, labergei, lamelliterga, lepidii, micheneri, Andrena (Derandrena) arctostaphylae, californiensis, hermosa, murietae, penutiani, viridissima. Thirteen names are placed in synonymy: Andrena semotula Cockerell with candidiformis Viereck and Cockerell; subtilicornis Viereck, nitidicornis Cockerell, chlorogaster nesiotes Timberlake, chlorogaster gavilanica Timberlake, radialis Timberlake, catalinica Cockerell with chlorogaster Viereck; vegana Viereck and Cockerell with illinoiensis …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No. 3. September, 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: A VOICE FOR CONSERVATION ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA—1968 ▪ Robert N. Randall

SOME ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS ▪ Laurence R. Jahn

SOME PLANTS OF WESTERN MINNESOTA ▪ O. A. Stevens

MORTALITY OF MIGRATORY BIRDS AT GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA FOLLOWING A MOSQUITO CONTROL OPERATION IN MAY, 1969 ▪ Robert W. Seabloom, Lewis W. Oring and James R. Reilly

NESTING OF THE UPLAND PLOVER ON THE MISSOURI COTEAU ▪ K. F. Higgins, H. F. Duebbert and R. B. Oetting

NOTE

Albino sparrows discovered at Hazen, North Dakota ▪ Larry L. Kruckenberg and …

The Genera And Species Of The Feather Mite Subfamily Trouessartinae Except Trouessartia (Acarina: Proctophyllodidae), Kenneth R. Orwig

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A systematic study of the acarine subfamily Trouessartinae (except Trouessartia) of the family Proctophyllodidae is presented. Diagnoses are given for the subfamily, five named genera and four new genera. The named genera and their type species are: Allanalges Trouessart, 1886, A. podagricus (Trouessart), 1886; Calcealges Gaud, 1952, C. cyathoplax Gaud, 1952; Hemicalcealges Gaud and Mouchet, 1957, H. margaropygus (Gaud and Mouchet), 1957; Pseudalges Radford, 1950, Proctophyllodes (Pterocolus) analgoides Trouessart, 1885; and Trouessartia Canestrini, 1899, Dermaleichus corvinus Koch, 1840. New genera and their type species are: Arthrogynalges, A. biovoidatus, new species; Bicentralges, B. orientalis, new species; Neocalcealges, N. inattditus, new species; …

Two Feather Mite Genera (Analgoidea, Proctophyllodidae) From Birds Of The Families Oxyruncidae And Pipridae (Passeriformes, Tyranni), Warren T. Atyeo, J. Gaud

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The genus Hemipterodectes Berla is redefined and the type species, H. squalocauda is figured. A new genus, Diproctophyllodes (type species, Proctophyllodes (Alloptes) dielytra Trouessert, 1885) is described; D. exquisita (Berla), 1959 is synomized with D. dielytra; and D. oxyrunci, new species, is described.

Biometrical Study Of Morphology And Development Of The Pennsylvanian Trilobite Ameura Sangamonensis (Meek And Worthen), Roger K. Pabian, J. A. Fagerstrom

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

Biometrical study of morphology and development in a sample of 100 cranidia, 94 pygidia, 26 free cheeks, and 9 complete specimens of the trilobite Ameura sangamonensis (Meek and Worthen) from the Bonner Springs Shale (Pennsylvanian; Missouri Series) in eastern Nebraska indicates that the dominant growth pattern was isometric. Evidence supporting this conclusion consists of rectilinear size relations among eight pairs of cranidial dimensions, three pairs of pygidial dimensions, and three pairs of dimensions of the free cheeks. Qualitative changes in pygidial morphology during development include a progressive decrease in prominence of the border, increasing width of the posterior border relative …

New Genera Related To The Genus Brephosceles Hull, 1934 (Acarina: Proctophyllodidae), Paul C. Peterson, Warren T. Atyeo

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

Five new genera are described; these and the included species are (type species listed first): Dichobrephosceles with Dermaleichus actitidis Canestrini, 1878 (=Brephosceles dolichocaulus Gaud and Mouchet, 1957, new synonymy), D. eroliae, new species (ex: Erolia alpina, England); Homeobrephosceles with Proctophyllodes (A lloptes) discosurus Trouessart, 1886, Brephosceles orthothrix Gaud and Mouchet, 1957; Onychalloptes with Proctophyllodes (Alloptes) microphaeton Trouessart, 1885, Alloptes minutus Trouessart, 1899; Aramolichus with Aramolichus foliatus, new species (ex: Aramus guarauna, Bolivia); Psilobrephosceles with Dermalichus ortygometrae Canestrini, 1878. Species included in the genus Brephosceles (s.s.) are listed; species transferred to Brephosceles are: Proctophyllodes (Pterocolus) fiagellifer discursus Trouessart, 1885; Pterocolus lambda …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No. 2. May, 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: North Dakota's Naturalist-at-Large ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

WETLAND VEGETATION OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS, NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert L. Burgess and Dennis T. Disrud

RAPID METHOD OF FILTRATION OF MARSH WATERS ▪ V. A. Adomaitis and J. A. Shoesmith

NOTES

Additional distribution records of the false map turtle and the short-horned lizard in North Dakota ▪ Dennis J. Gemmell

Summer record of the snowy owl in North Dakota ▪ Donald R. Johnson

Long-billed curlews in LaMoure County, North Dakota ▪ Gary L. Krapu

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1. No.1. March 1968

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Another Milestone ▪ John T. Lokemoen

NESTING OF THE COMMON SNIPE IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert E. Stewart and Harold A. Kantrud

SCIENCE WRITING — A PROBLEM ▪ Soren O. Kolstoe

INSECTICIDES: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD ▪ Richard D. Urban

NOTES

Why I like the Badlands ▪ Wayne Hecker

White-faced ibis in McIntosh County, North Dakota ▪ Harold F. Duebbert

Cinnamon teal observations in North Dakota ▪ A. T. Klett and John T. Lokemoen

Trumpeter swan in Kidder County, North Dakota ▪ Lewis M. Cowardin and James C. Bartonek

Specimen records of greater scaup ▪ Charles W. Dane and Harold …

The Role Of Adventitious Reinforcement In Operant Discrimination, Alan Kamil, John W. Davenport

Avian Cognition Papers

Rats were trained in 2 S^D-S^Δ discrimination experiments in which the effects of an S^D-postponement contingency during S^Δ and temporal regularity of S^Δ duration were assessed. Experiment I showed that discrimination is markedly facilitated by the presence of an S^D-postponement contingency of either fixed or variable duration. Experiment II showed that variable-duration S^Δ periods in a noncontingent schedule can also greatly enhance formation of an operant discrimination. These effects were attributed to differences in the probability of adventitious reinforcement of S^Δ behavior by S^D events.

Prairie Plants And Their Environment, J. E. Weaver

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884–1956)

When, in 1916, the writer came to the University of Nebraska as a young instructor, he came with a background that well fitted him for studies in the field. His research in the grassland and adjoining forests of southeastern Washington and adjacent Idaho had been completed and a fine acquaintance had been made with methods of examining the prairie both above and below ground level (Weaver, 1915, 1917). Similar studies in the area between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains were now to be made, and these have resulted in many new investigations that are of both scientific and …

Notes On Spotted Skunks (Genus Spilogale) From Western Mexico, Hugh H. Genoways, J. Knox Jones Jr.

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Specimens of spotted skunks acquired from western Mexico by the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas in the past two decades add substantially to the knowledge of the species occurring in that region. Two specimens of the rare Spilogale pygmaea (one from Sinaloa and one from Oaxaca) are reported for the first time. Two subspecies of pygmy spotted skunk are recognized - S. p. pygmaea Thomas with type locality at Rosario, Sinaloa, and S. p. australis Hall with type locality at Acapulco, Guerrero.

The large spotted skunk, Spilogalepusorius, varies clinally in size form north (larger) to …

A Revision Of The Bees Of The Genus Andrena Of The Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Wallace E. Laberge

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

This paper is the first part of a monograph of the bee genus Andrena in the western hemisphere and treats the subgenus Callandrena. Available data regarding phylogeny, distribution, biology, and flower preferences are presented together with keys to separate the species, diagnoses and descriptions of the species and discussions of geographic variation when applicable. Seventy-nine species and one subspecies are recognized. Sixteen names are relegated to synonymy, one to homonymy and eight are removed from the subgenus Callandrena. The thirty-nine species new to science are: aerifera, aeripes, afimbriata, ardis, auripes, balsamorhizae, beameri, bilimeki, bullata, calvata, dreisbachorum, fulminea, fulminoides, …