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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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SUBSPECIES attwateri

SUBSPECIES ammophilus

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