Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys Megalotis, on the Central Great Plains and in Adjacent Regions
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys Megalotis, on the Central Great Plains and in Adjacent Regions
                                            
                            By B. Mursaloglu
                            
                                23 Nov, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Excerpt........The western harvest mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, inhabits most parts of the central Great Plains and adjacent regions of tall grass prairie to the eastward, shows a marked predilection for grassy habitats, is common in many areas,
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                                                Excerpt........The western harvest mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, inhabits most parts of the central Great Plains and adjacent regions of tall grass prairie to the eastward, shows a marked predilection for grassy habitats, is common in many areas, and is notably less variable geographically than most other cricetids found in the same region. R. megalotis occurs (see Hall and Kelson, 1959:586, map 342) from Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois, Iowa and Missouri westward to, but apparently not across, the Rocky Mountains from southeastern Alberta to Colorado; it is known in Oklahoma only from the Panhandle, thence southward through the Panhandle and Trans-Pecos areas of Texas to southern México, westward across the mountains in New Mexico to the Pacific Coast, and northward to the west of the Rockies to southern British Columbia. Less