cultellus
Americannoun
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Origin of cultellus
1895–1900; < Latin: diminutive of culter knife, colter; for formation, see castellum
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For comparisons with T. b. internatus, T. b. cultellus, and T. b. rubidus, see accounts of those subspecies.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
T. b. pervagus occupies an area geographically intermediate between T. b. aureus to the west and T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus to the east and has some characters in common with these subspecies.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
T. b. internatus, T. b. cultellus, T. b. pervagus, and the newly named T. b. rubidus occupy part of the Southern Rocky Mountain Region and a narrow strip of the Great Plains.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus probably intergrade east of the Sangre De Cristo Range in the vicinity of the Colorado-New Mexico boundary.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
Remarks.—The dividing line between T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus is drawn arbitrarily since only one specimen has been collected between La Veta Pass and the border of New Mexico.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
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