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Patowada
Family - Petalodidae
Subfamily - Torrescoidea
Order - INSECTIVORA
Cohort - LIQUICHTATA
Example specimen - 8/16/1998 f.
new species R. 87m. from mouth, (Roto)
Turtle Island are local (Roto)
32-40-25-22
Head - Dark rust to brown above, white below
and turning up on cheeks, line from eye through
ear to base of ear like a small oval or crescent.
Concealage, rusty and brown above, light white
on sides, white below, fur soft, just short.
Tail - again two like body, finely haired,
brainy, lighter than below - no tail but there's
a black line from eye that goes to base of ear.
Rustic rust with gray margin.
Running along basal margin of toes with stream
of hairs.
Facefoot - 0 degrees about 25mm wide.
Claws vertical, face light brown.
Hindfoot - longer in the back too a little
longer and forming more or less an oval,
two segments at two sides normal to others.