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
_Specimens examined._--Total, 24, distributed as follows:
_Beaver County_: Britts Meadows, Beaver Mountains, 8,500
ft., 7 (3, M. V. Z.; 2, U. S. N. M.; 2, C. M.); Puffer Lake,
Beaver Mountains, 1 (U. S. N. M.); Kents Lake, Beaver
Mountains, 1 (R. H.). _Iron County_: Lava Beds, 3-1/2 mi. SW
Panquitch Lake, 1 (C. M.); Brian Head, Parowan Mountains, 2
(1, U. S. N. M.; 1, C. M.); Webster Flat, 16 mi. E Cedar
City, 4; Bear Valley, 2 mi. E B. V. Ranger Station, 1 (R.
H.). _Garfield County_: 1/4 mi. W Sunset Point, Bryce
National Park, 8,000 ft., 1 (M. V. Z.). _Kane County_:
Navajo Lake, 3 (R. H.); Duck Creek, Cedar Mountains, 9,000
ft., 3 (1, R. H.).
_Additional records._--_Garfield County_: Panquitch Lake, 1
(see Goldman 1938:335). _Iron County_: Beaver Mountains, 9
(see Bailey, 1915:112); Buckskin Valley, 1 (see Goldman,
1938:335).
=Thomomys talpoides levis= Goldman
_Thomomys fossor levis_ Goldman, Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., 28:336, July 15, 1938.
_Thomomys talpoides levis_ Goldman, Journ. Mamm., 20:234,
May 14, 1939.
_Thomomys fossor_ Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 39:112, November
15, 1915; Barnes, Bull. Univ. Utah, 12 (No. 15):85, April,
1922; Bull. Univ. Utah, 17 (No. 12):102, June, 1927.
_Type._--Female, adult, skin and skull, No. 158079, U. S. National
Museum (Biological Surveys Collection); Seven Mile Flat, 5 mi. N Fish
Lake, Fish Lake Plateau, 10,000 ft., Sevier County, Utah; October 1,
1908; collected by W. H. Osgood; original number 3616 (after Goldman,
type not seen).
_Range._--Fish Lake Mountains in Sevier County south into Garfield
County, Utah.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements). Color: Upper parts near
Sayal Brown, moderately mixed with black, darkest on head and middorsal
region, grading to Cinnamon Buff on sides and flanks; underparts
Pinkish Buff, clearest on inguinal and pectoral regions; chin, cheeks
and nose dusky; postauricular patches large and black; front feet, hind
feet and distal half of tail white; ears small and deeply pigmented.
Skull: Slender and weak; zygomatic arches not widely spreading;
posterior ends of nasals rounded; nasals moderately long and narrow;
rostrum long and narrow; extension of premaxillae posterior to nasals
short; interparietal usually much wider than long; pterygoid hamulae
ridged; interpterygoid space usually narrowly V-shaped; upper incisors
short.
_Comparisons._--Compared with topotypes of _Thomomys talpoides moorei_,
_levis_ differs as follows: Size smaller; tail shorter. Color: Darker
throughout, especially on dorsal surface due to more black of the
underfur; underparts deeper buff. Skull: Narrower, less massive;
zygomatic processes of maxillae weaker and not as widely spreading;
interparietal generally wider; extension of premaxillae posterior to
nasals less; posterior ends of nasals rounded rather than emarginate;
upper incisors shorter, less procumbent.
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