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The pocket gophers are considered to be medium to small in size in the order Rodentia. Baird's pocket gopher has a cylinder shaped body with most of its weight carried near its head. The zygomatic arch is shorter than the width of the mouth, meaning the dorsal of the animal exceeds the jugal bone. The neck is a little thinner but the heaviest ...
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus: Balaenoptera. Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Pocket gophers, commonly referred to simply as gophers, are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae. [2] The roughly 41 species [ 3 ] are all endemic to North and Central America. [ 4 ] They are commonly known for their extensive tunneling activities and their ability to destroy farms and gardens.
Since pocket gophers are so solitary, any contact that they have with other animals is likely to be with other pocket gophers of their same species. In this way, a certain initial type of lice could be passed on almost exclusively in one species of pocket gopher for generations and generations, producing a new species of louse, specific to one ...
Volcan de Toluca pocket gopher, Cratogeomys planiceps [9] LC; Goldman's pocket gopher, Cratogeomys goldmani LC; Merriam's pocket gopher, Cratogeomys merriami LC; Perote pocket gopher, Cratogeomys perotensis LC; Desert pocket gopher, Geomys arenarius [n 1] [n 6] NT; Attwater's pocket gopher, Geomys attwateri [n 1] LC; Baird's pocket gopher ...
Survival of the Louisiana pine snake depends on that of Baird's pocket gopher, whose abundance, in turn, depends on the understory plants and loose, sandy soil of the longleaf pine savannas. In March 2004, eight state and federal agencies signed a landmark Candidate Conservation Agreement to protect the Louisiana pine snake on federal lands in ...
The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophers [1] often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial herbivores .
Sometimes the pocket gophers and heteromyids are placed as separate subfamilies within a single family (Geomyidae). These subfamilies are Geomyinae and Heteromyinae respectively. Superfamily Geomyoidea. Genus †Caribeomys incertae sedis [1] Genus †Griphomys incertae sedis; Genus †Meliakrouniomys incertae sedis; Family †Eomyidae; Family ...