The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah: University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 1 No. 1Durrant, Stephen David
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The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah: University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 1 No. 1
Durrant, Stephen David
Pocket gophers -- Utah
_Thomomys uinta_ Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
14:112, July 19, 1901; Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 39:113,
November 15, 1915; Barnes, Bull. Univ. Utah, 12 (No. 15):83,
April, 1922; Bull. Univ. Utah, 17 (No. 12):104, June, 1927;
Stanford, Journ. Mamm., 12:360; November 11, 1931; Goldman,
Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 28:333, July 15, 1938; Davis,
The Recent mammals of Idaho, pp. 239, 259, The Caxton
Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho, April 5, 1939.
_Thomomys talpoides uinta_ Goldman, Journ. Mamm., 20:234,
May 14, 1939.
_Thomomys quadratus uinta Hall_, Univ. California Publ.
Zooel., 37:4, April 10, 1931.
_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull, No. 22501/30051, U. S. National
Museum (Biological Surveys Collection); north base Gilbert Peak, Uinta
Mountains, 10,000 ft., Summit County, Utah; June 6, 1890; collected by
Vernon Bailey; original number 1262 (after Merriam, type not seen).
_Range._--Uinta Mountains in Duchesne County, eastern Wasatch and
Summit counties, and western Uintah County south to the Roan, Brown and
Book cliffs in Carbon County.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements). Color: Upper parts Snuff
Brown finely mixed with black, paling over sides and flanks to near
Pinkish Buff on underparts; postauricular patches relatively small and
dusky; external opening of ear large; pinnae usually lightly pigmented;
hind feet white; front feet usually white only at base of toes; distal
third to half of tail white; tail usually light below, with proximal
dorsal half covered with darker hairs; nose, chin, cheeks and top of
head dusky; usually considerable white on throat. Skull: Small,
slender, and not heavily ridged; nasals short and dilated distally;
posterior margins of nasals emarginate; zygomatic arches moderately
widely spreading, widest posteriorly; interparietal pentagonal or
subquadrangular; interpterygoid space V-shaped; tympanic bullae well
inflated ventrally; upper incisors long and narrow.
_Comparisons._--For comparisons with other subspecies of _Thomomys
talpoides_, see accounts of those forms.
_Remarks._--The range formerly ascribed to _uinta_ (Bailey, 1915:114;
Barnes, 1922:83, 1927:104) is now known to be inhabited by animals
belonging to three distinct subspecies. The range of _uinta_ as now
understood is restricted to the southern and western parts of the
Uinta Mountains and their environs. Three specimens from the Book
Cliffs, Sunnyside, Carbon County, are not typical, but in a majority of
their characters agree with _uinta_ to which they are here referred.
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