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The southeastern pocket gopher is rather smaller than the plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius), with a total length of 260 mm (10.2 in) including a tail of about 86 mm (3.4 in). Males are larger than females and average 176 g (6.2 oz) in weight while the females average 136 g (4.8 oz).
Texas pocket gopher (G. personatus) Southeastern pocket gopher (G. pinetis) Strecker's pocket gopher (G. streckeri) Central Texas pocket gopher (G. texensis) Tropical pocket gopher (G. tropicalis) Genus Heterogeomys – giant pocket gophers or taltuzas; live in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia; some authors treat this genus as a subgenus ...
"Which mammals live in Pennsylvania?". Carnegie Museum of Natural History website. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27; Wilson, Don; Deeann Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
Gopher tortoises can live more than 40 years. [23] One current specimen, Gus (age 101—the oldest known living gopher tortoise—as of 2024 [ 24 ] [ 25 ] ), has been living continuously in captivity at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax for 75 years as of 2018 [update] [ 26 ] and is believed to have hatched between 1920 and 1925.
New England states are indicated in red. There are 7 orders, 17 families, 40 genera, and 60 species represented among the mammals of New England.If extirpated, coastal, introduced, and accidental species are included these numbers increase to 8 orders, 26 families, 67 genera, and 105 species.
This is a list of mammals of Maryland, those mammals native to or immediately off the coast of the U.S. state of Maryland. [1]Maryland does not have a designated state mammal, but does designate the calico cat as its state cat, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever as its state dog, and the Thoroughbred as its state horse.
Plains pocket gophers are found throughout the Great Plains of North America, ranging from southern Manitoba (Canada), and eastern North Dakota south to New Mexico and Texas in the United States, and as far east as the extreme western parts of Indiana.
The southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. [2] It is found in Mexico and the United States , usually in high altitude grassland and shrubland. It feeds on plant material and has an extensive burrow above which is a large heap of earth on the surface of the ground.