Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11]Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11]
Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Mammals -- Kansas; Pocket gophers
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 148, as follows: _Clay
County_: 6 mi. SW Clay Center, 3. _Jackson County_: 10-1/2 mi.
WSW Holton, 1; no locality more precise than county, 1.
_Atchison County_: 3 mi. N Cummings, 2. _Jefferson County_:
Oskaloosa, 1. _Leavenworth County_: Fort Leavenworth
(Government Hill, 2; Engineer Hill, 1), 6; no locality more
precise
than county, 19. _Saline County_: Salina, Debold Farm, 4 (coll.
of A. J. Kirn). _Morris County_: 1-1/2 mi. N Council Grove, 3.
_Douglas County_: 1 mi. NW Midland, 2; 1 mi. N Lawrence, 1;
2-1/2 mi. W Lawrence, 2; 1 mi. W K. U. Campus, 2; 1 mi. W
Lawrence, 2; 1/2 mi. W Lawrence, 2; "W K. U. Campus," 2; K. U.
Campus, 4; Lawrence, 23; South Lawrence, 1; 1/2 mi. SW K. U.
Campus, 2; Southwest K. U. Campus, 1; Haskell Institute, 1;
4-1/2 mi. S Lawrence, 1; 7 mi. SW Lawrence, 6; 7-1/2 mi. SW
Lawrence, 1; 8 mi. SW Lawrence, 1; 10 mi. S Lawrence, 1; 11 mi.
SW Lawrence, 3; no locality more precise than county, 15.
_Marion County_: 1-1/2 mi. NE Lincolnville, 6; 4 mi. SE
Lincolnville, 1; 6 mi. S Lincolnville, 1. _Greenwood County_:
Hamilton, 1; 1/2 mi. S Hamilton, 4; 1 mi. S Hamilton, 4; 4 mi.
S and 14 mi. W Hamilton, 6; 8 mi. SW Toronto, 1; 8-1/2 mi. SW
Toronto, 5; no locality more precise than county, 6.
=Geomys bursarius jugossicularis= Hooper
_Geomys lutescens jugossicularis_ Hooper, Occas. Papers Mus.
Zoöl., Univ. Michigan, no. 420: 1, June 28, 1940; Hibbard,
Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 75, 1944.
_Type locality._--Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado.
_Distribution in Kansas._--Extreme southwestern part of state,
northward certainly to Hamilton County and south certainly to
Morton and Seward counties.
_Description._--A yellowish-cinnamon colored animal, with body
of medium size, zygomatic plate of maxilla deep and mastoid
process small.
_Comparisons._--Differs from _Geomys bursarius industrius_ in slightly
lighter color; occiput not strongly inclined anterodorsally.
From _G. b. lutescens_, _jugossicularis_ differs in less buffy
coloration and deeper zygomatic plate of maxilla.
_Remarks._--_G. bursarius jugossicularis_ and _G. bursarius industrius_
intergrade in the southern part of Meade County. Some specimens from
this area show a coloration resembling that of _G. b. jugossicularis_;
nevertheless, one specimen from Morton County has the occiput
anterodorsally inclined as in _G. b. industrius_.
Specimens examined from Hamilton County correspond closely to _G. b.
jugossicularis_; they agree with it both in color and in cranial
characters.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 20, distributed as
follows: _Hamilton County_: 1 mi. E Coolidge, Conard Farm, 4.
_Morton County_: 12 mi. NE Elkhart, 2; Cimarron River, 12 mi. N
Elkhart, 4; no locality more precise than county, 6. _Seward
County_: 1 mi. E Arkalon, 4.
=Geomys bursarius industrius=, new subspecies
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