Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Cratogeomys castanops
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 122
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The yellow-faced pocket gopher (Cratogeomys castanops) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to shortgrass prairies in the south-western United States and northern Mexico. It is the species that lives north of the Southern Coahuila Filter-Barrier (SCFB). Among the different species, the yellow-faced pocket gopher has a small to medium-sized skull. The fossil of this genus was recorded from the pre-Pleistocene Benson Beds of Arizona. The yellow-faced pocket gopher has a yellowish-brown coat, a short tail, and one deep groove down the anterior middle of each incisor.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow-faced pocket gopher”.