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
Compared with topotypes of _Thomomys bottae centralis_, _virgineus_
differs in: Size smaller; tail shorter; hind foot smaller. Color:
Deeper Cinnamon Buff, thus darker in overall appearance. Skull:
Smaller, but relatively wider; zygomatic processes of maxillae heavier;
region of maxillo-jugal sutures thicker; jugals more concave laterally;
tympanic bullae more inflated ventrally; molariform teeth larger.
_Remarks._--This pocket gopher occupies practically the same range in
Utah as the large kangaroo rat _Dipodomys deserti deserti_ Stephens.
Both are found in the Beaverdam Wash. The type locality of _virgineus_
is but a short distance down the Beaverdam Creek at Littlefield,
Arizona. It intergrades with _birdseyei_, the mountain form to the
north and east (see remarks under _birdseyei_). There are evidences of
intergradation with _planirostris_ of the Virgin River Valley above the
narrows of the Virgin River where it cuts through the Beaverdam
Mountains (see the discussion under _planirostris_). There are
intergradational tendencies exhibited towards _centralis_ in some
specimens. Some of the animals are practically indistinguishable in
color and there are intergrading cranial characters in the nasals,
zygomatic arches and tympanic bullae.
_Specimens examined._--Total, 20, distributed as follows:
_Washington County_: Beaverdam Wash, 8 mi. N Utah-Arizona
border, 7; Beaverdam Wash, 5 mi. N Utah-Arizona border,
2,600 ft., 13.
=Thomomys bottae planirostris= Burt
_Thomomys perpallidus planirostris_ Burt, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 44:38, May 8, 1931.
_Thomomys bottae planirostris_ Hall and Davis, Proc. Biol.
Soc. Washington, 47:52, February 9, 1934; Goldman, Proc.
Biol. Soc. Washington, 48:156, October 31, 1935; Presnall,
Zion-Bryce Mus. Bull., 2:14, January, 1938; Long, Journ.
Mamm., 21:176, May 14, 1940.
_Thomomys perpallidus aureus_ Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 39:75,
November 15, 1915; Barnes, Bull. Univ. Utah, 12 (No. 15):85,
April, 1922; Bull. Univ. Utah, 17 (No. 12):100, June, 1927;
Woodbury, Ecological Monographs, 3:193, April, 1933.
_Thomomys bottae centralis_ Hall and Davis, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 47:52, February 9, 1934; Presnall, Zion-Bryce
Mus. Bull., 2:14, January, 1938.
_Thomomys perpallidus centralis_ Hall, Univ. California
Publ. Zooel., 23:445, July 8, 1930.
_Thomomys bottae nicholi_ Goldman, Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., 28:337, July 15, 1938, type from Shivwits Plateau, 20
mi. S Wolf Hole (road to Parashonts), 5,000 ft., Mohave
County, Arizona; Hardy, Ecological Monographs, 15:98,
January, 1945.
_Thomomys bottae trumbullensis_ Hall and Davis, Proc. Biol.
Soc. Washington, 47:52, February 9, 1934.
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