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E. Lendell Cockrum Geographic Variation in Red-backed Mice…

Three specimens (two adults) are available from the Little Medicine Range in Converse County (22 miles south and 24.5 miles west of Douglas, 7600 feet) , Wyoming. Although red-backed mice probably are found in the mountains of Natrona and Albany counties, the population, in the Little Medicine Range is somewhat isolated. In coloration these mice are lighter than any of the three geographic variants described above; the dorsal stripe is narrower; the sides are more buffy; the dorsal stripe does not project anteriorly beyond the ears as it does in the specimens from the Medicine Bow Mountains
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E. Lendell Cockrum Geographic Variation in Red-backed Mice…

In comparison with three adult C. g. loringi from Elk River, Sherburne County, Minnesota, C. g. brevicaudus has a greater total length, longer hind foot, greater basal length, conspicuously greater zygomatic and lambdoidal breadths, much longer nasals, and a narrower rostrum.
Clethrionomys gapperi brevicaudus, although isolated geographically and although morphologically more distinct than many of the currently recognized subspecies of C. gapperi, is probably best arranged as a subspecies of C. gapperi rather than as a full species.
Source: Gutenberg

E. Lendell Cockrum Geographic Variation in Red-backed Mice…

N Saguache, Saguache County, Colorado, although referred to this subspecies on the basis of paler pelage, inflation of auditory bullae, and heavier teeth, show characters of C. g. galei in the narrowness across the zygomata and lambdoidal crest. Four specimens from Silverton (1 adult and 3 young adults) are referable to this subspecies on the basis of color of pelage and cranial proportions but are smaller than either C. g. gauti or C. g. galei.
Source: Gutenberg

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