Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Cratogeomys castanops
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The yellow-faced pocket gopher 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.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Geomyidae
- Genus
- Cratogeomys