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The length of the head and body is 70 to 100 mm (2.8 to 3.9 in), and the tail is slightly longer at 85 to 110 mm (3.3 to 4.3 in). There is a small amount of hair at the tail, the scales of which are pinkish except at the upper surface near the body where a line of dark brown appears.
Abrothrix illuteus, also known as the gray akodont, [2] gray grass mouse, [1] or gray soft-haired mouse, [3] is a species of small rodent in the genus Abrothrix of family Cricetidae. It is found only in northwestern Argentina .
The subspecies mainly differ in the contrast on the head, the throat colour, the amount of barring and the iris colour. [ 6 ] The rare white-headed mousebird can be confused with this species, but the differently colored mandibles and the lack of a bare grey orbital patch render the speckled species distinctive. [ 5 ]
Head and body is 8.4–17.5 centimetres (3.3–6.9 in), tail is 12.8–24.5 centimetres (5.0–9.6 in), and weight is 23–122 grams (0.81–4.30 oz). [1] The fur is grey to brown above with a white belly. They are restricted to forests where they spend all of their time in the canopy.
It has well-developed, blackish eye rings that extend toward the nose (similar to the buff-bellied, elegant and Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossums but unlike the common, dwarf, Karimi's and Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossums). The head-and-body length of the white-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum is 7.3 to 10.5 centimetres (2.9 to 4.1 in); the ...
Little native mouse, Pseudomys delicatulus; Desert mouse, Pseudomys desertor; Smoky mouse, Pseudomys fumeus; Blue-gray mouse, Pseudomys glaucus † Gould's mouse, Pseudomys gouldii [2] The Shark Bay mouse was previously described as a separate species Pseudomys fieldi, but is now considered conspecific with P. gouldii
White-bellied agouti A W mice have agouti coloration, with hairs that are black at the tips, then yellow, then black again, and white to tan bellies. [4] Agouti A looks like A W but the belly is dark like the back. [4] Black and tan a t causes a black back with a tan belly. A/a t heterozygotes look like A W mice. [4]
In the wild they vary in color from grey and light brown to black (individual hairs are actually agouti coloured), but domesticated fancy mice and laboratory mice are produced in many colors ranging from white to champagne to black. [5] They have short hair and some, but not all, sub-species have a light belly. [5] The ears and tail have little ...