Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010)

The Bryan’s woodrat (Neotoma bryanti) of Cedros Island that is displayed on the cover is a species considered endemic to Cedros Island, in the Mexican Pacific, in southern Baja California. Individuals are associated with coastal scrubs and chaparral vegetation. Patton et al., 2008 (Univ. Cal. Pub. 135:1-411), in their review of the species in the group lepida, consider Neotoma bryanti as the nominal species that is distributed across most of the Baja California peninsula. N. bryanti has five subspecies, including N. anthonyi (N. b. anthonyi), a species endemic to Todos Santos Island, in front of Ensenada, Baja California. The population inhabiting Cedros Island becomes N. b. bryanti (photograph by Sergio Ticul Alvarez Castaneda).