| Smoky Pocket Gopher | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Cratogeomys |
| Species: | C. fumosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cratogeomys fumosus (Merriam, 1892) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pappogeomys fumosus |
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The Smoky Pocket Gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the Geomyidae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Molecular phylogenetics has revealed that this species also includes the animals formerly separated as C. gymnurus, C. neglectus, C. tylorhinus and C. zinseri.[1]