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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Endangered |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
This species is poorly known. It prefers the deep, friable soil of high montane pine-spruce-alder forests. Burrow entrances are covered by volcano-like mounds of earth with no opening and it is thought that the species may be entirely fossorial (Ceballos and Oliva 2005).
Range:
Zygogeomys trichopus currently is known from only three localities in west-central Mexico, all in the state of Michoacán: NW slope of Cerro Tancítaro, NW slope of Cerro Patambán, and Cerro del Burro, 10 km SE of Pátzcuaro (Hafner and Barkley 1984). This species is no longer found at its type locality (Nahuatzen, Michoacán). This species is found at elevations above 2,200 m asl.
Conservation:
This species is protected under Mexican law as "en peligro de extinción" ('in danger of extinction'). There are no protected areas within its range.