Heterocephalus, the Remarkable African Burrowing Rodent (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The neck is short and thick. The pes and manus of the short legs are supplied with stiff hairs, arising from the sides of the toes. The function of these in such a fossorial mammal as Heterocephalus is quite obvious, as Thomas (1885) has pointed out. The tail is not quite half the length of the head and body.

Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this rodent is the almost total absence of hair. Vibrissae are prominent about the lips, while the chin and throat, as well as the forehead and crown, are with out a vestige of hair. There is a single superciliary vibrissa. Three prominent genal vibrissae appear slightly ventrad to a line drawn from the eye to the ear. These arise from a prominent wart. Single hairs arise from warts here and there about the back and venter, with no ap parent regard to order. The tail contains twenty - two hairs in both specimens examined. The integument is exceedingly thin, almost paper like in texture.

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