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Geomys arenarius Merriam 1895
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Geomys arenarius Merriam 1895
Geomys arenarius Merriam 1895, N. Amer. Fauna, 8: 139.
Type Locality: USA, Texas, El Paso Co., El Paso.
Vernacular Names: Desert Pocket Gopher.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Geomys arenarius subsp. arenarius Merriam 1895
Subspecies Geomys arenarius subsp. brevirostris Hall 1932
Distribution: Extreme W Texas, SW and SC New Mexico (USA); N Chihuahua (Mexico).
Conservation: IUCN – Lowered Risk (nt).
Discussion: Reviewed by Williams and Baker (1974, Mammalian Species No. 36) and Williams and Genoways (1978). Considered a subspecies of bursarius by Hafner and Geluso (1983); phylogenetic separation of arenarius and bursarius established by Jolley et al. (2000).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Geomyidae, pp. 859-870 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 862, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B149FDE7D3909CFBF93D8FFBC8EF1D48 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/6E56016909A7D9B9E18F24146AA2E9E5 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231543162 (URL)
Biodiversity
References
- Hall, E. R., and R. M. Gilmore. 1932. New mammals from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska. University of California Publications in Zoology, 38: 391 - 404.
- Williams, S. L., and R. J. Baker. 1974. Geomys arenarius. Mammalian Species, 36: 1 - 3.
- Williams, S. L., and H. H. Genoways. 1978. Review of the desert pocket gopher, Geomys arenarius (Mammalia: Rodentia). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 47: 541 - 570.
- Jolley, T. W., R. L. Honeycutt, and R. D. Bradley. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of pocket gophers (genus Geomys) based on the mitochondrial 12 S rRNA gene. Journal of Mammalogy, 81: 1025 - 1034.