Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher

Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Geomyidae
Genus:	Cratogeomys
Species:	C. castanops
Binomial name
Cratogeomys castanops (Baird, 1852)
Subspecies
See text
Range of Cratogeomys castanops
Synonyms
Pappogeomys castanops

The Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher (Cratogeomys castanops) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to shortgrass prairies in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

The Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher has a yellowish-brown coat, a short tail, and one deep groove down the anterior middle of each incisor.

Subspecies

There are currently 19 identified subspecies^[2] of Cratogeomys castanops:

• C. c. angusticeps
• C. c. bullatus
• C. c. castanops
• C. c. clarkii
• C. c. consitus
• C. c. dalquesti
• C. c. excelsus
• C. c. goldmani^[3][4]
• C. c. hirtus
• C. c. jucundus
• C. c. parviceps
• C. c. perexiguus
• C. c. perplanus
• C. c. pratensi
• C. c. sordidulus
• C. c. subsimus
• C. c. surculus
• C. c. tamaulipensis
• C. c. ustulatus

References

1. ^ Linzey, A.V. (2008). Cratogeomys castanops. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 January 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
2. ^ Patton, James L. (16 November 2005). "Family Geomyidae (pp. 859-870)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 859. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12800003. 
3. ^ http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=3860606
4. ^ http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/14859750