Birds of the Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, and Southern Nevada John H. Rappole

The Auk ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 1113-1114
Author(s):  
Timothy Brush
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Southern Nevada

The centipede Theatops posticus (Say) (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) in the southwestern United States and Mexico

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2637-2644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland M. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Common ◽  
Northwestern Mexico ◽  
Pacific Species

The common eastern Nearctic centipede Theatops posticus (Say), previously reported once each from Arizona and southern Utah and therefore considered rare in southwestern North America, is widespread in Arizona and newly recorded from southern Nevada, southwestern New Mexico, southern California, and northwestern Mexico (Baja California Norte, Sonora, and Chihuahua); it is even known from Santa Cruz Island in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast. The species therefore exhibits a continental distribution pattern, with eastern and western populations segregated by some 1200 km (750 mi) in Texas and New Mexico. Some southwestern individuals exhibit small ventral spurs on the ultimate pre femora and (or) femora, and coxopleurae with slightly elevated, caudally produced medial borders, conditions that are intermediate between those displayed by the eastern population and the congener in California and southern Oregon. Since these variants are also geographically intermediate, they prove that the latter's phenotypic resemblance to Theatops erythrocephalus (C. L. Koch) in southern Europe represents convergence. Consequently, this name is not applicable to the Pacific species, and californiensis Chamberlin is available as its correct specific name.

Edgar Lee Hewett

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Fisher
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Southern California ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
American Research ◽  
And Training ◽  
Museum Of New Mexico

We are called upon to record the loss of one of the last of the “early greats” in American Archaeology, Edgar Lee Hewett, who took his eternal place on December 31, 1946 with his illustrious contemporaries in the science— Lewis H. Morgan, Frederic W. Putnam, J. Wesley Powell, William H. Holmes, J. Walter Fewkes, Adolf F. Bandelier, Alice C. Fletcher, and Charles F. Lummis. Philosopher, teacher, world traveler and explorer, Doctor Hewett leaves an enviable record which includes: the founding and direction for thirty-seven years of the Archaeological Institute's School of American Research; the establishment of departments of anthropology in two leading universities (University of New Mexico and University of Southern California); the building of two important museums (Museum of New Mexico and San Diego Museum); the development and training of several distinguished professional archaeologists; and the endowment of “The Humanities” with numerous essays, papers, and books comprising more than two hundred titles—archaeological, philosophical, sociological, historical, and pedagogical—readable yet scholarly.

scholarly journals Epitypification Carex bolanderi (Cyperaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
James L. Reveal ◽  
Robert F.C. Naczi ◽  
Peter F. Zika
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Sierra Madre Occidental ◽  
Sierra Madre

With the description of Carex infirminervia Naczi (in Naczi et al. 2002: 528) and the summation of Carex sect. Deweyanae (Tuckerman ex Mackenzie 1913: 352) Mackenzie (1931: 114) by Naczi (in Naczi 2002: 321–325), a recent summary of Pacific Northwest sedges (Wilson et al. 2008: 106–107), and the new Jepson Manual (Zika et al. 2012: 1322), the circumscription of C. bolanderi Olney (1868: 393) is now firmly established. As such, C. bolanderi occurs from southern British Columbia to southern California east to Montana, Utah and New Mexico, and then south in the Sierra Madre Occidental through Chihuahua to northern Durango, Mexico. Previous usage of C. bolanderi was somewhat confused both as to its circumscription and to its distribution because of the inclusion of some specimens of C. infirminervia as in the cases of Munz (1959: 1443, 1974: 887) and Mastrogiuseppe (1993: 1122), or when it was included in C. deweyana Schweinitz (1824: 65; e.g., Cronquist 1969: 261, 1977: 158, Taylor 1983: 102).

scholarly journals The Contribution of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones to the Rainfall Climatology of the Southwest United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (8) ◽  
pp. 2415-2435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen L. Corbosiero ◽  
Michael J. Dickinson ◽  
Lance F. Bosart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Warm Season ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Summer Rainfall ◽  
Southwest United States ◽  
Rainfall Climatology

Abstract Forty-six years of summer rainfall and tropical cyclone data are used to explore the role that eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones (TCs) play in the rainfall climatology of the summer monsoon over the southwestern United States. Thirty-five TCs and their remnants were found to bring significant rainfall to the region, representing less than 10% of the total number of TCs that formed within the basin. The month of September was the most common time for TC rainfall to occur in the monsoon region as midlatitude troughs become more likely to penetrate far enough south to interact with the TCs and steer them toward the north and east. On average, the contribution of TCs to the warm-season precipitation increased from east to west, accounting for less than 5% of the rainfall in New Mexico and increasing to more than 20% in southern California and northern Baja California, with individual storms accounting for as much as 95% of the summer rainfall. The distribution of rainfall for TC events over the southwest United States reveals three main categories: 1) a direct northward track from the eastern Pacific into southern California and Nevada, 2) a distinct swath northeastward from southwestern Arizona through northwestern New Mexico and into southwestern Colorado, and 3) a broad area of precipitation over the southwest United States with embedded maxima tied to terrain features. Differences in these track types relate to the phasing between, and scales of, the trough and TC, with the California track being more likely with large cutoff cyclones situated off the west coast, the southwest–northeast track being most likely with mobile midlatitude troughs moving across the intermountain west, and the broad precipitation category generally exhibiting no direct interaction with midlatitude features.

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