Yellow-faced pocket gopher

Yellow-faced pocket gopher
At Alpine, Texas, US
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Geomyidae
Genus: Cratogeomys
Species:
C. castanops
Binomial name
Cratogeomys castanops
(Baird, 1852)
Subspecies

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Range of Cratogeomys castanops
Synonyms
  • Pappogeomys castanops

The yellow-faced pocket gopher (Cratogeomys castanops) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to shortgrass prairies in the south-western United States and northern Mexico. It is the species that lives north of the Southern Coahuila Filter-Barrier (SCFB).[2] Among the different species, the yellow-faced pocket gopher has a small to medium-sized skull.[3] The fossil of this genus was recorded from the pre-Pleistocene Benson Beds of Arizona.[4]

The yellow-faced pocket gopher has a yellowish-brown coat, a short tail, and one deep groove down the anterior middle of each incisor.

  1. ^ Cassola, F. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Cratogeomys castanops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T16025A115131062. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16025A22216913.en. Retrieved 11 November 2022. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
  2. ^ Hafner, David J.; Hafner, Mark S.; Hasty, Gerald L.; Spradling, Theresa A.; Demastes, James W. (2008). "Evolutionary Relationships of Pocket Gophers (Cratogeomys castanops Species Group) of the Mexican Altiplano". Journal of Mammalogy. 89: 190–208. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-001.1.
  3. ^ Russell, R. J. , 1968b. Revision of pocket gophers of the genus Pappogeomys. Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 16:581-776
  4. ^ Russell, R. J., 1969. Intraspecific population structure of the species Pappogeomys castanops. Pp. 337-371, in Contributions in mammalogy (J. K. Jones, Jr., ed.). Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., Univ. Kansas, 51:1-428