1820. _Mephitis interrupta_ Rafinesque, Ann. Nat. ..., 1:3.
Type locality, Upper Missouri River?.
1952. _Spilogale putorious interrupta_, McCarley, Texas
Jour. Sci., 4:108, March 30.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--From Sierra de Tamaulipas
northward.
The young male from La Pesca weighed 480 grams. In the Sierra de
Tamaulipas a lactating female was taken (June 9) in a steel trap. A
young male from there weighed 275 grams. The young male from three
miles north of La Pesca weighed 520 grams.
Specimens from Tamaulipas are assigned to the subspecies _interrupta_
following Van Gelder (1959:270-279). He regarded specimens from
Tamaulipas as intergrades between _S. p. interrupta_ and _S. p.
leucoparia_.
_Records of occurrence._--Specimens examined, 6: 9-1/2 mi.
SW Padilla, 1; 3 mi. N La Pesca, 1; La Pesca, 1; Rancho
Santa Rosa, 2 km. N, 13 km. W Cd. Victoria, 260 m., 1;
Sierra de Tamaulipas, 2 mi. S, 10 mi. W Piedra, 1200 ft., 2.
Additional records (Van Gelder, 1959:279): "Tamaulipas"; Cd.
Victoria.
=Mephitis mephitis varians= Gray