Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent Areas — John Shaqi
Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent AreasAnderson, Sydney
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Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent Areas
Anderson, Sydney
Mice
For each of the series listed in Table 1 all adult mice having
skulls that measured more than 24.0 mm. in condylobasilar length
were studied. Total length, length of tail, and length of hind foot
were taken from the collector's field labels. The measurements of
the skulls listed below were taken by means of dial calipers
reading to one-tenth of a millimeter, and in the same fashion as
described previously (Anderson, 1954:492). Measurements of
specimens in each series were averaged (the arithmetic means were
computed). If the averages differed noticeably the significance of
the difference was tested statistically. Averages referred to in
the text as significantly different differ by as much as, or more
than, the sum of two times the standard error of each of the two
averages. Linear measurements are in millimeters; color values are
in the arbitrary units described in a preceding paragraph.
Measurements taken of the skulls are: condylobasilar length,
zygomatic breadth, interorbital breadth, lambdoidal breadth,
prelambdoidal breadth, depth of braincase, and alveolar length of
upper molar tooth-row.
Secondary sexual variation was not detected in the material
studied. Variation with age is important to the taxonomist even
among specimens designated as "adults", because growth and changes
in various proportions continue throughout the life of the mice.
The possibility that differences detected in the statistical
treatment or observed directly could be the result of differences
in average age within the samples of "adults" was considered in
each case.
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