Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher

Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Geomyidae
Genus: Cratogeomys
Species: C. castanops
Binomial name
Cratogeomys castanops
(Baird, 1852)
Subspecies

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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

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