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Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming
and Colorado
BY
E. RAYMOND HALL and H. GORDON MONTAGUE
University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 5, No. 3, pp. 25-32
February 28, 1951
University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1951
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor,
A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 5, No. 3, pp. 25-32
February 28, 1951
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1951
23-6627
Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming and Colorado
BY
E. RAYMOND HALL AND H. GORDON MONTAGUE
In the academic year of 1947-48 Montague studied the geographic
variation in _Thomomys talpoides_ of Wyoming. His study was based upon
materials then in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.
Publication of the results was purposely delayed until previously
reported specimens from certain adjacent areas, especially in Colorado,
could be examined. In the autumn of 1950 one of us, Hall, was able to
examine the specimens from Colorado; also, the specimens from Wyoming
accumulated in the past two seasons of field work in Wyoming were
examined by Hall. A result of these studies is the recognition of two
heretofore unnamed subspecies of the northern pocket gopher in
southeastern Wyoming.
Grateful acknowledgment is made of the opportunity to study the
Coloradon specimens in the Biological Surveys Collection of the United
States National Museum, and of the financial assistance from the Kansas
University Endowment Association which permitted the field work in
Wyoming.
Descriptions and names for the two new subspecies are given below:
=Thomomys talpoides rostralis= new subspecies
_Type._--Female, adult, skull and skin, no. 17096 Mus. Nat. Hist., Univ.
Kansas; from 1 mi. E Laramie, 7164 ft., Albany County, Wyoming; obtained
on July 16, 1945, by C. Howard Westman; original no. 320.
_Range._--Southern Wyoming and south in the mountains of Colorado to the
Arkansas River but not including the Colorado River drainage except in
Grand County and part of Routt County.
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