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Transcription
Larson
Spotted Tondo
Rhynchocyon macrurus
Genus species - Rhynchocyon macrurus
Family - Macroscelididae
Superfam - Macroscelidoidea
Order - INSECTIVORA
Cohort - UNGUICULATA
Example specimen
Head - KM-none given, 07, sept-1943,
Mickwa Stream, H Roseberry Dist Chief
Mulondolo area, N.E. Rhodesia, D.G. Lancaster.
No measurements - when stuffed -
Description
Head - snout long brown haired, tip brown,
brown above hairs banded straw and black,
ears light brown, chin ruffows white.
Body - 6 strips running from shoulders to ail, middle 3 darkest brown with 5 white
spots inbeldled in stripe, next 2 stripes with 6
white marks, last two with alternating brown stripse,
with 5 white marks running down it.
background color on shoulders and between
stripes brown as head, rusty flanks and
sides, shoullers, ventrally light ruffows.
Tail - long black, whitish tipped, light below.
Front feet - 4 toes 4 claws, 4th toe vestigial
and up on side of foot, pads dark, hair rusty
brown.
Hind feet - legs long, foot long, 4 long toes
with long brown claws, pads brown or black,
hair rusty brown and short.