Smoky pocket gopher

{{Short description|Mexican Rodent}}

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| name = Smoky pocket gopher

| image = Cratogeomys fumosus 173340184.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. |author2=Lacher, T. |author3=Vázquez, E. |date=2016 |title=Cratogeomys fumosus |volume=2016 |page=e.T16026A22216828 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T16026A22216828.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Cratogeomys

| species = fumosus

| authority = (Merriam, 1892)

| synonyms =

{{species list

|Pappogeomys fumosus| (Merriam, 1892)

|Cratogeomys neglectus| (Merriam, 1902)

|Cratogeomys tylorhinus| (Merriam, 1895)

|Cratogeomys zinseri| (Goldman, 1939)

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The smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in Mexico, in the states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, Estado de Mexico, and the Mexican Federal District.

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.{{cite journal |last1=Hafner |first1=Mark S. |last2=Spradling |first2=Theresa A. |last3=Light |first3=Jessica E. |last4=Hafner |first4=David J. |last5=Demboski |first5=John R. |title=Systematic Revision of Pocket Gophers of the Cratogeomys gymnurus Species Group |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |date=21 December 2004 |volume=85 |issue=6 |pages=1170–1183 |doi=10.1644/BER-122.1 |doi-access=free }}

Four subspecies are recognized:{{cite book |last1=Hafner |first1=Mark |title=Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 6 |date=July 2016 |publisher=Lynx Edicions}}

• C. f. fumosus Merriam, 1892
• C. f. angustirostris Merriam, 1903
• C. f. imparilis Goldman 1939
• C. f. tylorhinus Merriam, 1895