Mogollon voles are mountain-meadow specialists across their range in Arizona, New Mexico, and the high country of the Trans-Pecos, typically found in grassy clearings well above the desert floor. The three places listed for Texas records, Aransas, Padre Island, and Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuges, are all low coastal sites hundreds of miles from that kind of habitat, so those localities likely reflect a generic refuge list rather than confirmed vole habitat and are worth treating with caution.
What’s more solid is the record count itself: only 27 total, all from GBIF and none from iNaturalist, with January the only month showing more than a handful of reports and most other months at zero or one. That’s a genuinely thin dataset, thin enough that neither the seasonal shape nor the named places should be read as settled fact.
NatureServe hasn’t assigned Texas a subnational rank for this vole at all, SNR, Unranked, which itself signals how little dedicated survey work has been done on the state’s population.
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