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 bottae centralis_ Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 48:156, October 31, 1935; Hall and Johnson,
Proc. Utah Acad. Sci. Arts and Letters, 15:121, 1938.
_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull, No. 41688, Museum of Vertebrate
Zooelogy, University of California; 2-1/2 mi. E Baker (1-1/4 mi. W
Nevada-Utah boundary on 39th parallel), 5,700 ft., White Pine County,
Nevada; May 30, 1929; collected by E. Raymond Hall; original number
2683.
_Range._--Extreme western Utah, in Millard, Beaver and Iron counties.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements); tail long; claws on front
feet long. Color: Near Cinnamon Buff on upper parts, darker in
middorsal region, grading to Pinkish Buff on underparts, more
accentuated in pectoral and inguinal regions; nose, cheeks and
postauricular patches grayish black; front and hind feet and distal
half of tail white. Skull: Robust and moderately ridged; zygomatic
breadth about the same for entire length of arches; jugals vertical
posterior to middle; moderate thickening present at region of
maxillo-jugal suture; interpterygoid space narrowly V-shaped; dorsal
frontomaxillary sutures convex medially; lacrimal processes globose and
well developed; nasals long and with distal denticulations;
paroccipital processes well developed.
_Comparisons._--Compared with topotypes of _Thomomys bottae
albicaudatus_, _centralis_ differs as follows: Size larger; tail
longer; claws on front feet longer. Color: Lighter throughout, Cinnamon
Buff as opposed to near (13''''_n_) Black. Skull: Basilar length and
length of nasals greater; zygomatic breadth less; zygomatic arches
thicker at region of maxillo-jugal sutures; interpterygoid space more
broadly V-shaped; dorsal frontomaxillary sutures convex medially as
opposed to straight; paroccipital processes more developed; zygomatic
arches approximately the same width throughout as opposed to widest
posteriorly.
For comparisons with _Thomomys bottae aureiventris_ see account of that
form.
_T. b. centralis_ can be distinguished from _Thomomys bottae
bonnevillei_, _robustus_, _sevieri_ and _convexus_ by larger size
throughout and generally darker color (see accounts of those forms).
From _Thomomys bottae stansburyi_ and _tivius_, _centralis_ differs in
larger size throughout and lighter color (see accounts of those forms).
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