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SPECIES Geomys bursarius
| Author: | Shaw, 1800. | | Citation: | Philosophical Magazine, 6: 215. | | Common Name: | Plains Pocket Gopher. | | Type Locality: | USA, upper Mississippi Valley (restricted to Minnesota, Sherburne Co., Elk River by Swenk, 1939). | | Distribution: | SC Manitoba (Canada) to NW Indiana, SC Texas, and NE New Mexico (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Revised by Merriam (1895a) and, in part, by Honeycutt and Schmidly (1979) and by Heaney and Timm (1983a), who considered lutescens a valid species (see also Heaney and Timm, 1985; Jolley et al., 2000). Burns et al. (1985), Sudman et al (1987), and Elrod et al. (2000) listed lutescens as a subspecies of bursarius, which is followed here. Elrod et al. (2000) mapped the ranges of all subspecies recognized by Hall (1981). |
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