Southern Pocket Gopher

Southern Pocket GopherA pocket gopher from Mexico's Pacific-side mountains. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in Megascapheus; a 2011 redescription reports dry thornscrub along the western Sierra Madre Occidental.What does it look like?In Allen's 1898 description, two of three specimens had plumbeous-gray fur with slight brown tips and nearly naked tails; the third was slate black with faint fulvous-brown hair on the sides.How does it live?A pocket gopher from Mexico's Pacific-side mountains. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in Megascapheus; a 2011 redescription reports dry thornscrub along the western Sierra Madre Occidental.A 2011 redescription reports the species in dry thornscrub along the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.