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Geomys bursarius (plains pocket gopher)

Synonyms: Geomys parvidens; Mus bursarius (homotypic); Pseudostoma bursarius

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
View Wikipedia Record: Geomys bursarius

Infraspecies

Geomys bursarius bursarius
Geomys bursarius illinoensis
Geomys bursarius industrius
Geomys bursarius major
Geomys bursarius majusculus
Geomys bursarius missouriensis
Geomys bursarius ozarkensis
Geomys bursarius wisconsinensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.7
EDGE Score: 1.9
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Attributes

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

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem Artichoke)[2]
Sorghum halepense (aleppo milletgrass)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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, 165–183
♦ 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
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