Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated) (1922) (14596954290)

Identifier: transactionspro461922roya (find matches)

Title: Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated)

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Royal Society of South Australia

Subjects: Science

Publisher: Adelaide : W.C. Rigby

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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reminiscent of a little rabbit than of a moretypical rat. It sits bunched up, so that it appears to be farbroader and shorter than the prepared skin would suggest.The ears are carried well away from the head (see fig. 1),and, probably as the result of fighting, they are usually irregu-larly notched around their margins. The nipples are four innumber, and are situated in the inguinal region. It appearsthat the young adhere firmly to the nipples, and for a timeare dragged about by the mother; it is this circumstancewhich has led to a belief that the animal is a marsupial. F 186 Measurements of adults, measured in the flesh, are asfollow : — . (S 25 48 28162240 48 19 In the viscoral anatomy there are one or two points ofinterest. In the female, the clitoris is completely perforated d Hhinarium to eye 21 Khinarium to ear 40 Ear 28 Tail 148 Head a.nd body ... 210 TTind foot 45 Fore foot 19 9 9 9 9 26 26 21 26 42 50 43 51 27 30 26 27 162 173 145 155 235 235 198 230 47 44 44 45 20 18 19 19

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Fig. 5. Leporillus jonesi. The palate and upper teeth to show the incisive papilla and the palate ridges. by the urethra; and externally the two sexes are very similarin young animals. The stomach (see fig. 6) is extremely large, and is verydistinctly marked out into two chambers by a frilled edge of 187 heaped-up epithelium. The first pouch is oesophageal inorigin, and the second is the true pyloric stomach. Thecaecum (see fig. 7) is enormous; the caput caeci is coiled uponitself; and the whole organ occupies a very large proportionof the lower part of the abdominal cavity. In several speci-mens it was tenanted by a Cestode which is apparently anundescribed species. The small intestine is relatively shorty

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