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SPECIES Geomys attwateri
| Author: | Merriam, 1895. | | Citation: | N. Am. Fauna, 8: 135. | | Common Name: | Attwater’s Pocket Gopher. | | Type Locality: | USA, Texas, Caldwell Co., Rockport. | | Distribution: | SC coast of Texas (USA). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Williams and Cameron (1991, Mammalian Species No. 382). Considered a subspecies of bursarius by Hall (1981) and Patton (1993) but a distinct species by Tucker and Schmidly (1981) and Block and Zimmerman (1991). Burt and Dowler (1999) reviewed the evidence for species status and Jolley et al. (2000) documented a phylogenetic relationship to personatus, not bursarius. |
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