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
For comparisons with _Thomomys bottae stansburyi_ and _T. b.
contractus_ see accounts of those forms.
The four subspecies _tivius_, _albicaudatus_, _stansburyi_, and
_contractus_ are the darkest in color of all the _Thomomys bottae_
occurring within the state.
_Remarks._--This small, dark subspecies is limited to the Canon
Mountains in eastern Millard County. Apparently it is a mountain
derivative of _Thomomys bottae contractus_ which occurs in the valleys
to the east and west of these mountains. Intergradation is noted with
animals from the valleys on either side. For further comments on
distributional problems of this type see remarks under _Thomomys bottae
stansburyi_.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 12, from the type locality.
=Thomomys bottae contractus= new subspecies
_Thomomys perpallidus albicaudatus_ Hall, Univ. California
Publ. Zooel., 37:3, April 10, 1931.
_Thomomys bottae albicaudatus_ Durrant. Bull. Univ. Utah, 28
(No. 4):4, August 18, 1937.
_Type._--Male, adult, skin and skull, No. 1851, Museum of Zooelogy,
University of Utah; Scipio, 5,315 ft., Millard County, Utah; September
17, 1936; collected by S. D. Durrant; original number 1125.
_Range._--Extreme eastern Millard and Beaver counties, Utah.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements). Color: Upper parts
Cinnamon Buff, mixed with black giving a color of Dresden Brown; sides
between Cinnamon Buff and Pinkish Buff; underparts Pinkish Buff, purest
on inguinal and pectoral regions; postauricular patches medium in size
and black; ears covered with black hairs; nose, chin, cheeks and top of
head dusky; front feet, hind feet and distal third to half of tail
white; proximal part of tail covered all around with buff-colored
hairs. Skull: Long, slender, moderately ridged and convex transversally
at proximal ends of nasals; nasals long; rostrum long and narrow;
posterior ends of nasals truncate or shallowly emarginate; ascending
processes of premaxillae slender; extension of premaxillae posterior to
nasals long; zygomatic arches neither robust nor widely spreading;
interparietal subquadrangular; supraoccipital extending horizontally
well behind lambdoidal suture instead of dropping off abruptly to the
foramen magnum; interpterygoid space moderately V-shaped in some
specimens, but somewhat lyre-shaped in others; tympanic bullae large
and truncate anteriorly; upper incisors long and narrow; molariform
teeth small and light.
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