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
Provo is the locality listed for specimens which were available to
naturalists from 1875-1877. To these specimens the following names were
applied: _Thomomys talpoides bulbivorus_ Coues (1875:256; 1877:627) and
_Thomomys talpoides umbrinus_ Coues and Yarrow (1875:112). Possibly
these names were applied to the animals currently known as _Thomomys
bottae albicaudatus_ which does occur at Provo. Without the opportunity
to examine the actual specimens, which so far as I know are no longer
in existence, I cannot exclude the possibility that the locality
designation "Provo" was used in a general sense to include pocket
gophers taken a few miles to the eastward of Provo, where it is known
that pocket gophers of only the species _Thomomys talpoides_ (current
terminology) occur.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 239, distributed as follows:
_Davis County_: Bountiful, 4,500 ft., 1. _Salt Lake County_:
Salt Lake City and environs, 4,300 ft., 51; 2 mi. W Murray,
4,300 ft., 6; Riverton, 4,300 ft., 11; Draper, 4,500 ft., 7;
Rose Canyon, Oquirrh Mountains, 5,650 ft., 4. _Tooele
County_: Bauer, 4,500 ft., 30; Settlement Creek, Oquirrh
Mountains, 6,500 ft., 1; St. John, 4,300 ft., 28; Clover
Creek, Onaqui Mountains, 5,500 ft., 15; Vernon, 4,300 ft., 2
(U. S. A. C.); Little Valley, Sheeprock Mountains, 5,500
ft., 20. _Utah County_: Fairfield, 4,800 ft., 24; Provo,
4,400 ft., 20 (8, B. Y. U.; 12, M. V. Z.). _Juab County_:
Neff Farm, 4 mi. N Nephi, 5,000 ft., 2 (1, R. H.); Nephi,
5,000 ft., 1 (M. V. Z.); 2 mi. S Nephi, 4,700 ft., 14; 7 mi.
SW Nephi, 6,000 ft., 2.
=Thomomys bottae bonnevillei= new subspecies
_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull, No. 3576, Museum of Zooelogy,
University of Utah; Fish Springs, 4,400 ft., Juab County, Utah; June 8,
1940; collected by S. D. Durrant; original number 1955.
_Range._--Known only from the type locality.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements); claws on front feet
small. Color: Entire dorsal surface Warm Buff; sides near (_e_)
Cinnamon Buff, underparts near (16") Pale Pinkish Buff; inguinal
region, front and hind feet and distal part of tail white: top of head,
nose and cheeks grayish black; postauricular patches small and grayish
black; ears small, pointed and with heavily pigmented pinnae. Skull:
Angular, short and wide; nasals of medium length, narrow proximally but
widely flared distally; interparietal small; lambdoidal suture concave
towards the interparietal; zygomatic arches uniformly widely spreading;
interpterygoid space widely V-shaped; extension of premaxillae
posterior to nasals long; lambdoidal crest well developed.
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