Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Geomyidae > Geomys > Geomys bursariusGeomys bursarius (plains pocket gopher)Synonyms: Geomys parvidens; Mus bursarius (homotypic); Pseudostoma bursarius The plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) is one of thirty-five species of pocket gopher, 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 rodents found in North America. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.7 EDGE Score: 1.9 |
Adult Weight [1] | 177 grams | Birth Weight [1] | 5 grams | | Diet [2] | Herbivore | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | Female Maturity [1] | 3 months 1 day | Male Maturity [1] | 3 months 1 day | | Gestation [1] | 51 days | Litter Size [1] | 4 | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 12 years | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 8 inches (21 cm) | Weaning [1] | 34 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Central and Southern mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central forest-grasslands transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central tall grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central U.S. hardwood forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Chihuahuan desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Flint Hills tall grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern mixed grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern short grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern tall grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Western Great Lakes forests |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Western short grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument |
V |
4731 |
Nebraska, United States |
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Badlands National Park |
II |
178535 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Buffalo National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
59947 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Cedar Creek LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
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Minnesota, United States |
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Chickasaw National Recreation Area |
V |
7025 |
Oklahoma, United States |
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De Soto National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8007 |
Iowa, Nebraska, United States |
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Effigy Mounds National Monument |
V |
1296 |
Iowa, United States |
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Fort Davis National Historic Site |
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Texas, United States |
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site |
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Iowa, United States |
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Homestead National Monument of America |
V |
850 |
Nebraska, United States |
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Hot Springs National Park |
II |
5740 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Konza Prairie Biosphere Reserve |
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8617 |
Kansas, United States |
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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area |
V |
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Texas, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Pipestone National Monument |
V |
326 |
Minnesota, United States |
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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument |
V |
1081 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Scotts Bluff National Monument |
V |
3185 |
Nebraska, United States |
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Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Colorado, United States |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Geomys bursarius (Rodentia: Geomyidae), MATTHEW B. CONNIOR, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(879):104–117 (2011) ♦ 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 ♦ 4Nathan 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 ♦ 5Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165183 ♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 7International Flea Database♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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