Thomomys townsendii (Bachman, 1839)

James L. Patton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Geomyidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 469-476 : 475

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scientific name	Thomomys townsendii (Bachman, 1839)
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Thomomys townsendii (Bachman, 1839) View in CoL . J. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 8:105.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, erroneously given as "Columbia River", but restricted to Idaho, Canyon Co., near Nampa, by Bailey (1915) .

DISTRIBUTION: Snake River Valley of Idaho south and west to SE Oregon, NE California, and N Nevada ( USA).

SYNONYMS: atrogriseus Bailey, bachmani Davis, elkoensis Davis, nevadensis Merriam, owyhensis Davis, relictus Grinnell, similis Davis.

COMMENTS: Revised by Davis (1937) and Rogers (1991«, b). Considered a distinct species by Thaeler (1968b), Patton et al. (1984), Patton and Smith (1989), and Rogers (1991«, b), despite limited hybridization with bottae in NE California. Hall (1981:469, 495) reviewed Thaeler's evidence and included townsendii in umbrinus (sensu Hall) .

References

Davis, W. B. 1937. Variations in Townsend pocket gophers. Journal of Mammalogy, 18: 145 - 158.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Patton, J. L., M. F. Smith, R. D. Price, and R. A. Hellenthal. 1984. Genetics of hybridization between the pocket gophers Thomomys bottae and Thomomys townsendii in northeastern California. Great Basin Naturalist, 44: 431 - 440.

Patton, J. L., and M. F. Smith. 1989. Genetic structure and the genetic and morphologic divergence among pocket gopher species (genus Thomomys). Pp. 284 - 304, in Speciation and Its Consequences (D. Otte and J. A. Endler, eds.). Sinauer Associates Incorporated, Sunderland, MA, 679 pp.

Thaeler, C. S., Jr. 1968 b. An analysis of three hybrid populations of pocket gophers (genus Thomomys). Evolution, 22: 543 - 555.