Northern pocket gopher (Redirected from Thomomys talpoides)

Northern pocket gopher
Thomomys talpoides.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Geomyidae
Genus: Thomomys
Species:
T. talpoides
Binomial name
Thomomys talpoides
Richardson, 1828
Subspecies

T. t. aequalidens
T. t. agrestis
T. t. andersoni
T. t. attenuatus
T. t. bridgeri
T. t. bullatus
T. t. caryi
T. t. cheyennensis
T. t. cognatus
T. t. columbianus
T. t. devexus
T. t. douglasii
T. t. duranti
T. t. falcifer
T. t. fisheri
T. t. fossor
T. t. fuscus
T. t. gracilis
T. t. immunis
T. t. incensus
T. t. kaibabensis
T. t. kelloggi
T. t. levis
T. t. limosus
T. t. loringi
T. t. macrotis
T. t. medius
T. t. meritus
T. t. monoensis
T. t. moorei
T. t. nebulosus
T. t. ocius
T. t. oquirrhensis
T. t. parowanensis
T. t. pierreicolus
T. t. pryori
T. t. quadratus
T. t. ravus
T. t. relicinus
T. t. retrorsus
T. t. rostralis
T. t. rufescens
T. t. saturatus
T. t. segregatus
T. t. shawi
T. t. talpoides
T. t. taylori
T. t. tenellus
T. t. trivialisuinta
T. t. wallowa
T. t. wasatchensis
T. t. whitmani
T. t. yakimensis

Thomomys talpoides map.svg

The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) is a small gopher species native to the western United States and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Manitoba.

Description

Northern gophers are often rich brown or yellowish brown, but also grayish or closely approaching local soil color and have white markings under the chin. They also weigh less than a quarter of a pound (110 grams).

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 from a burrow entrance. Underground, however, they often have tunnels that extend hundreds of feet where they live, store food., and mate.[2]

References

  1. ^ Linzey, A.V., & Hammerson, G. (NatureServe) (2008). "Thomomys talpoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2009.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
  2. ^ http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/mammals/mammals/pocket.html



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