Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher

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iYellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Eutheria
Order: Rodentia
Family: Geomyidae
Genus: Cratogeomys
Species: C. castanops
Binomial name
Cratogeomys castanops
Merriam, 1895

The Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher, Cratogeomys castanops, is a pocket gopher that is native to the shortgrass prairie in Southwestern North America and Northern Mexico.

Range of C. castanops
Range of C. castanops

The Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher has a yellowish-brown coat, a short tail, and one deep groove down the anterior middle of each incisor.