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Title: A New Species of Pocket Gopher (Genus Pappogeomys) From Jalisco, Mexico

Author: Robert J. Russell

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 11, pp. 357-361

January 21, 1957

A New Species of Pocket Gopher (Genus
Pappogeomys) From Jalisco, Mexico

BY

ROBERT J. RUSSELL

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1957

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Harrison B. Tordoff

Volume 9, No. 11, pp. 357-361
Published January 21, 1957

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1957

26-5801

A New Species of Pocket Gopher (Genus Pappogeomys) From Jalisco, Mexico

BY

ROBERT J. RUSSELL

J. R. Alcorn collected a number of pocket gophers of the genus
_Pappogeomys_ in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima. The bulk
of this material was obtained in 1949 and 1950. Full treatment of these
interesting pocket gophers will be given by the author in a future
publication.

Among the _Pappogeomys_ collected by Alcorn were three specimens from
the high Sierra del Tigre, an isolated range not previously sampled for
pocket gophers. The Sierra del Tigre is situated in southern Jalisco
and western Michoacan, and, like most of the mountainous terrain in
this region of Mexico, is volcanic in origin. To the south the Sierra
del Tigre descends abruptly to lower elevations of the arid coastal
plains, uninhabited by gophers of this genus. The small pocket gopher
occurring in the Sierra del Tigre seems to be an undescribed species of
the genus _Pappogeomys_ which may be known as

=Pappogeomys alcorni= new species