Baculum: Stalk elongate, greatest length (2.8 mm.) 2-1/2 times greatest
breadth, 6 times greatest depth; three well-developed ossified processes;
median process larger than lateral processes, 1/2 the length of stalk,
curved, basally broad, ventrally keeled, trilobate posteriorly; lateral
ossifications large, flattened distally, curved; posterior profile of
stalk posteriorly slightly emarginate, thus bilobate in outline; in
end-view dorsal concavity deeper than ventral, constriction less than 1/2
greatest depth, tuberosities confluent, visible in dorsal view at each
side; shaft slender, especially in depth, straight; at mid-point of stalk
almost twice as wide as deep, slight terminal inflation.
The general proportions of the stalk and the relatively large, uniquely
shaped processes, are characteristic of most specimens of the genus
_Clethrionomys_ examined.
_Specimen examined_: _C. occidentalis californicus_, one from Mary's
Peak, Benton Co., Oregon, 30, F. W. Sturges' collection.
Clethrionomys glareolus Schreber
Fig. 13
Baculum: Stalk elongate, greatest length (2.9 mm.) twice the greatest
breadth in the specimen examined, flattened proximally, greatest length
almost 6 times greatest depth of base; three well-developed ossified
processes; median process arched in a dorsoventral plane, with basal
notch and lateral lobes; lateral processes as long as median process,
bowed in dorsal view, flattened distally, with ventromedial vane; basal
tuberosities of stalk weakly developed, medially confluent; posterior
profile in dorsal view evenly rounded; in end-view dorsal concavity
shallow in comparison to most species but deeper than ventral concavity,
constriction 3/4 greatest depth; shaft straight, at mid-point slightly
wider than high, elongate, widest point of stalk less than 1/4 of total
length from proximal end, slight lateral inflation at tip; lateral
profile in dorsal view sloping at first abruptly and then gradually from
widest point of stalk anteriorly onto shaft.
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