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Geomys arenarius (desert pocket gopher)

Synonyms: Geomys bursarius arenarius
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico and in Texas and New Mexico in the United States.
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Infraspecies

Geomys arenarius arenarius
Geomys arenarius brevirostris (White Sands pocket gopher)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.91
EDGE Score: 2.88
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  206 grams
Birth Weight [1]  5 grams
Female Weight [1]  186 grams
Male Weight [1]  226 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  21.5 %
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 months 3 days
Male Maturity [1]  3 months 1 day
Gestation [1]  27 days
Litter Size [4]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  7 inches (18 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Arizona Mountains forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Chihuahuan desert Mexico, United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research IV 228335 New Mexico, United States
White Sands National Monument III 139922 New Mexico, United States

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Geomys arenarius, Stephen L. Williams and Robert J. Baker, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 36, pp. 1-3 (1974)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0