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
The characters that distinguish _moorei_ from _Thomomys talpoides
parowanensis_ are: Color: Lighter throughout. Skull: Broader, more
angular and more nearly flat; zygomatic arches more widely spreading;
zygomatic processes of maxillae heavier; posterior ends of nasals
emarginate rather than rounded; upper incisors longer.
For comparisons of _moorei_ with _Thomomys talpoides levis_ and
_wasatchensis_ see accounts of these forms.
_Remarks._--Specimens from Colton, show intergradation between
_moorei_, _uinta_ and _wasatchensis_, but are referable to _moorei_ in
the majority of characters. Specimens from Mount Nebo, and the mouth of
Reddicks Canyon, in the Wasatch and San Pitch mountains, respectively,
are intergrades between _moorei_ and _wasatchensis_, but are referable
to _moorei_.
That part of the Wasatch Mountains south of Spanish Fork Canyon is
inhabited by pocket gophers that are intergrades between _moorei_ and
_wasatchensis_, but the cranial details show them to be referable to
_moorei_. The range here ascribed to _moorei_ consists of the Wasatch
Plateau to the east of Sanpete Valley, the San Pitch Mountains and the
southern part of the Wasatch Mountains. The type locality of _moorei_
is situated in the southern end of a high valley that separates the
Wasatch Plateau from the San Pitch and Wasatch mountains. Topotypical
animals are larger and have more ridged, angular skulls than those from
the mountains.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 48, distributed as follows:
_Utah County_: Near Payson Lake, 1 (R. H.); Mt. Nebo, 25 mi.
SE Payson, 10,000 ft., 20; Colton, 8 (B. Y. U.). _Sanpete
County_: 1 mi. S Fairview, 6,000 ft., 12 (U. S. N. M.).
_Juab County_: Mouth of Reddicks Canyon, Wales Mountain (=
San Pitch Mountains), 7,500 ft., 5. _Emery County_: Lake
Creek, 11 mi. E Mt. Pleasant, 2 (C. M.).
_Additional records._--_Sanpete County_: Ephraim, 5 (see
Goldman, 1938:336).
=Thomomys talpoides fossor= Allen
_Thomomys fossor_ Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:51,
April 28, 1893; Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 39:111, November 15,
1915; Barnes, Bull. Univ. Utah, 12 (No. 15):85, April, 1922;
Bull. Univ. Utah, 17 (No. 12):102, June, 1927; Hall, Univ.
California Publ. Zooel., 37:4, April 10, 1931.
_Thomomys talpoides fossor_ Goldman, Journ. Mamm., 20:234,
May 14, 1939.
_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull, No. 5240/4120, American Museum of
Natural History; Florida, 7,200 ft., La Plata County, Colorado; June
25, 1892; collected by Charles P. Rowley (after Allen, type not seen).
_Range._--In the mountains of San Juan and Grand counties, east of the
Colorado and Green rivers.
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