Llano pocket gopher exists nowhere outside central Texas. Its entire documented range sits within the state, centered on the Llano Uplift country around Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, the Hill Country, and Devils River State Natural Area, granite and limestone terrain with the loose, diggable soil this burrowing rodent depends on.
That narrow range shows up in its conservation numbers: NatureServe rates it Imperiled (S2) in Texas, a serious rank for a species with nowhere else to retreat if local habitat fragments. With 154 records, it lands in the occasional tier among Texas mammals, a modest count that likely reflects how hard an animal that spends nearly its whole life underground is to document, rather than true scarcity. No single month dominates the record set, consistent with a species detected mostly through surface mounds and incidental digging rather than seasonal above-ground activity.
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