Key Identification Features
- The tail has very little hair, particularly close to the tip, and its upper incisors feature a single pair of grooves.
- Populations of this gopher that were previously found in Maverick County, Zavala County, and Dimmit County have recently been reclassified as a separate distinct species, Strecker's pocket gopher.
- They were split from Cratogeomys merriami due to distinct molecular, chromosomal, and morphological differences.
- mobilensis, which occurs west of the Apalachicola River, may be a distinct species.
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