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Title: Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Cratogeomys castanops, in Coahuila Mexico

Author: Robert J. Russell
Rollin H. Baker

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~University of Kansas Publications~
~Museum of Natural History~

Volume 7, No. 12, pp. 591-608

March 15, 1955

Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher,
Cratogeomys castanops, in Coahuila, Mexico

BY
ROBERT J. RUSSELL AND ROLLIN H. BAKER

~University of Kansas~
~Lawrence~
1955

~University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History~

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 7, No. 12, pp. 591-608
Published March 15, 1955

~University of Kansas~
~Lawrence, Kansas~

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1955

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Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher,
Cratogeomys castanops, in Coahuila, Mexico

By

Robert J. Russell and Rollin H. Baker

The plateau pocket gopher, _Cratogeomys castanops_, inhabits open
lands from southeastern Colorado southward onto the Mexican
Plateau as far south as southern San Luis Potosi and southeastern
Zacatecas and southeastward to the Coastal Plain of northern
Tamaulipas. This species occurs at elevations from as low as 26 feet
at Matamoras in Tamaulipas to as high as 8700 feet in valleys of
south-eastern Coahuila. In 1934, N