Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus BaiomysPackard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis)
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Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys
Packard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis)
Mice
_Diagnosis._--Size medium to small for the species; general ground color
of dorsum between Olive Brown and Buffy Brown; distal fourth of
individual guard hairs of dorsum black-tipped, proximal three-fourths
gray, underfur black-tipped with subterminal band of Vinaceous-Buff,
gray basally; facial region below eye Olive-Buff to Deep Olive-Buff;
regions of flanks without black-tipped guard hairs, therefore, appearing
paler brownish-buff than dorsum; venter Pale Olive-Buff to whitish in
midline, hairs there white to base, laterally grayish basally; hairs in
region of throat and chin resemble those of underparts; forefeet and
hind feet flesh-colored with grayish suffusion; ears dusky brown; tail
almost unicolored, slightly darker brown above than below; coronoid
process less acutely falcate than in other subspecies; zygoma bowed.
Average and extreme external and cranial measurements of 14 adults from
La Piedra de Jesus Sabana Grande, Honduras, are as follows: Total
length, 110.7 (100-123); length of tail vertebrae, 44.0 (32-55); length
of body, 66.7 (60-70); length of hind foot, 14.1 (12-15); length of ear
from notch, 11.8 (10-13); occipitonasal length, 19.3 (18.9-19.8);
zygomatic breadth, 10.1 (9.8-10.4); postpalatal length, 6.8 (6.2-7.3);
least interorbital breadth, 3.9 (3.8-4.1); length of incisive foramina,
4.3 (4.0-4.5); length of rostrum, 6.9 (6.6-7.2); breadth of braincase,
9.6 (9.2-10.1); depth of cranium, 7.0 (6.8-7.3); alveolar length of
maxillary tooth-row, 3.2 (3.0-3.4); for photographs of skull, see Plate
1_b_, and Plate 3_b_.
_Comparisons._--For comparisons with _B. m. pullus_ and _B. m.
handleyi_, see accounts of those subspecies. From _B. m. nigrescens_,
_B. m. grisescens_ differs in: dorsum less blackish (dark brown to
buffy); face buffy below eye rather than brownish-black; venter buffy to
whitish in midline, not sooty gray; forefeet and hind feet flesh-colored
with gray overtones, not dusky to sooty; zygoma bowed, sides less
parallel; braincase and bony palate slightly broader.
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