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
Topotypes of _levis_ differ from near topotypes of _Thomomys talpoides
uinta_ as follows: Size larger. Color: Upper parts slightly darker;
postauricular patches much darker and larger; ears small and deeply
pigmented as opposed to large and lightly pigmented; tail darker all
around at base, with white part more extensive and with fewer
buff-colored hairs. Skull: More convex dorsally; zygomatic arches more
widely spreading and angular; nasals longer; rostrum longer;
interparietal wider and more elliptical; posterior ends of nasals
rounded as opposed to emarginate; extension of premaxillae posterior to
nasals less; pterygoid hamulae more ridged; interpterygoid space more
narrowly V-shaped; upper incisors shorter and less procumbent.
Topotypes of _levis_ can be distinguished from those of _Thomomys
talpoides kaibabensis_ by markedly smaller measurements.
For comparisons with _Thomomys talpoides parowanensis_ and
_wasatchensis_ see accounts of those forms.
_Remarks._--Specimens from the Escalante Mountains and the Aquarius
Plateau are not typical. They are of approximately the same color as
_levis_, but are larger than _levis_ and have cranial details that
indicate intergradation with _kaibabensis_ to the south. They resemble
_kaibabensis_ in large size, long nasals and widely spreading zygomatic
arches, but are like _levis_ in shape of the interparietal, extension
of premaxillae posterior to the nasals, rounded posterior ends of
nasals, ridged pterygoid hamulae and relatively short upper incisors.
Additional material from these regions may prove these animals to merit
separation and naming.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 15, distributed as follows:
_Sevier County_: Seven Mile Flat, 5 mi. N Fish Lake, Fish
Lake Plateau, 10,000 ft., 2 (U. S. N. M.); Fish Lake
Experiment Station, 2 (U. S. A. C). _Garfield County_: Posy
Lake, Aquarius Plateau, 2 (B. Y. U.); 18 mi. N Escalante,
9,500 ft., 3; Steep Creek, Boulder-Teasdale Road, Boulder
Mountain, 4 (B. Y. U.); Summit Birch Creek, Escalante
Mountains, 2 (B. Y. U.).
MEASUREMENTS OF ADULT MALES OF THOMOMYS
(In millimeters)
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