A New Pocket Gopher (Genus Thomomys) From Wyoming and Colorado
A New Pocket Gopher (Genus Thomomys) From Wyoming and Colorado
By Eugene Raymond Hall
20 Nov, 2018
Excerpt.....Among small mammals accumulated, from Wyoming, in the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas, specimens of the wide-spread species Thomomys talpoides are abundantly represented. Subspecific names are available for most of t
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Excerpt.....Among small mammals accumulated, from Wyoming, in the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas, specimens of the wide-spread species Thomomys talpoides are abundantly represented. Subspecific names are available for most of these, but specimens from the Sierra Madre Mountain Range of Wyoming and Colorado prove upon comparison to pertain to an heretofore unnamed subspecies which may be described and named as follows:
Thomomys talpoides meritus new subspecies
Type.—Male, adult, skull and skin, no. 25628 Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas; from 8 mi. N and 19-½ mi. E Savery, 8800 ft., Carbon County, Wyoming; obtained on July 19, 1948, by George M. Newton; original no. 4.
Range.—Sierra Madre Mountain Range of southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Less