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Habitat. Their habitat consists usually of good soil in meadows or along streams; most often in mountains, but also in lowlands. Northern pocket gophers rarely appear above ground; when they do, they rarely venture more than 2.5 feet (0.76 m) from a burrow entrance. Underground, however, they often have tunnels that extend hundreds of feet ...
Gopher. 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.
The plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) is one of 35 species of pocket gophers, so named in reference to their externally located, fur-lined cheek pouches. They are burrowing animals, found in grasslands and agricultural land across the Great Plains of North America, from Manitoba to Texas. Pocket gophers are the most highly fossorial ...
Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some areas as valley pocket gopher, particularly in California. Both the specific and common names of this species honor Paul-Émile Botta, a naturalist and archaeologist who collected mammals in California in 1827 and 1828.
Yellow-faced pocket gopher. The yellow-faced pocket gopher (Cratogeomys castanops) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to shortgrass prairies in the south-western United States and northern Mexico. It is the species that lives north of the Southern Coahuila Filter-Barrier (SCFB). [2]
The camas pocket gopher (Thomomys bulbivorus), also known as the camas rat or Willamette Valley gopher, is a rodent, the largest member in the genus Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae. First described in 1829, it is endemic to the Willamette Valley of northwestern Oregon in the United States. The herbivorous gopher forages for vegetable and ...
Geomys bursarius lutescens Merriam, 1890. Geomys lutescens, also known as the Sand Hills pocket gopher, is a species of pocket gopher native to the western United States ( Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, and Nebraska ). [1] It is a fossorial rodent that inhabits the Mississippi basin. The common name is derived from the type locality of Sand ...
Geomys bursarius jugossicularis Hooper, 1940. Geomys jugossicularis, also known as Hall's pocket gopher and Colorado pocket gopher, is a species of pocket gopher native to the western United States ( Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska ). [2] Little is known of its behavior or ecology aside from typical behaviors of the other pocket gophers.