The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North AmericaWhite, John A.
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The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America
White, John A.
Chipmunks; Penis
_E. r. simulans_: Idaho: _Bonner Co._: Priest Lake, 1 (BS).
_Kootenai Co._: 13 mi. E and 5 mi. N Coeur d'Alene, 3. _Shoshone
Co._: Mullan, 1 (BS). _Clearwater Co._: 25 mi. E and 16 mi. N
Pierce, 6.
#Eutamias cinereicollis# (J. A. Allen)
Figure 13
General tone of upper parts dark grayish tawny; size medium to
large; skull large; braincase widened.
Baculum: Shaft thick; keel proportionally low, 1/5 of length of tip; tip
34 per cent of length of shaft; angle formed by tip and shaft 145°;
distal 1/3 of shaft slightly compressed laterally; base slightly
widened; shaft long, 4.88 mm.
Differs from _E. quadrimaculatus_, in keel lower, ridges on either side
of tip weakly developed, angle formed by tip and shaft larger; from _E.
speciosus_, _E. panamintinus_, _E. umbrinus_, _E. palmeri_, and _E.
bulleri_, in shaft longer, base not markedly widened, angle formed by
tip and shaft much larger.
For comparisons with _E. alpinus_, _E. minimus_, _E. townsendii_, _E.
sonomae_, _E. amoenus_, _E. dorsalis_, _E. merriami_, _E.
quadrivittatus_, and _E. ruficaudus_, see the accounts of those species.
_Specimen examined_: One from Mount Thomas, White Mountains,
Apache Co., Arizona (BS).
#Eutamias quadrimaculatus# (Gray)
Figure 14
General tone of upper parts bright reddish; pattern
inconspicuous; light and dark facial stripes strongly
contrasting; size large; skull relatively small and slightly
built.
Baculum: Shaft thick; keel relatively low, 1/4 of length of tip; tip 27
per cent of length of shaft; angle formed by tip and shaft 120°; distal
1/3 of shaft slightly compressed laterally; base slightly wider than
shaft; shaft long, 4.35 to 5.28 mm.
Differs from _E. speciosus_, _E. panamintinus_, _E. townsendii_, _E.
umbrinus_, _E. palmeri_, and _E. bulleri_, in shaft markedly longer;
base not markedly widened; angle formed by tip and shaft larger; tip
proportionally shorter.
For comparisons with all other species of chipmunks from western North
America, see the accounts of those species.
_Specimens examined_: 4.
California: _Plumas Co._: Mountains near Quincy, 1 (BS). _Placer
Co._: Blue Canyon, 1 (NM). _Alpine Co._: Markleeville, 1 (BS); N
fork Stanislaus River, 1 (BS).
#Eutamias speciosus# (Merriam)
Figure 15
General tone of upper parts bright; light and dark elements of
color pattern strongly contrasting; outer stripes broad and
strikingly conspicuous; size medium; skull moderately broadened;
dorsal outline of skull strongly arched in profile; upper
incisors short and sharply recurved.
Baculum: Shaft thick; keel of medium height, 1/3 of length of tip; base
of keel 1/3 of length of tip; tip 47 to 55 per cent of length of shaft;
angle formed by tip and shaft 90°; distal 2/3 of shaft markedly
compressed laterally; base markedly wider than shaft; shaft short to
medium, 2.11 to 3.17 mm.
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