World Species : Thomomys bottae (Botta's pocket gopher)

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Thomomys bottae (Botta's pocket gopher)

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Synonyms: Oryctomys bottae (homotypic)

Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some sources 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 the 1820s and 1830s.

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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 14.89

EDGE Score: 2.77

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	116 grams
Birth Weight ^[1]	3 grams

Diet ^[2]	Herbivore
Diet - Plants ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[1]	10 months 19 days
Male Maturity ^[1]	10 months 19 days

Gestation ^[1]	19 days
Litter Size ^[1]	6
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	6 years
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	9 inches (23 cm)
Weaning ^[1]	38 days

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
California Floristic Province	Mexico, United States	No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands	Mexico, United States	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No

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External References

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Citations

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♦ ³Nathan 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
♦ ⁴Thomomys bottae, Cheri A. Jones and Colleen N. Baxter, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 742, pp. 114 (2004)
♦ ⁵Jorrit 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.
♦ ⁶Prairie falcon prey in the Mojave Desert, California, DA Boyce, Raptor Research 19 (4):128-134 (1985)
♦ ⁷Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165183
♦ ⁸DIET COMPOSITION AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF MEXICAN SPOTTED OWLS, Mark E. Seamans and R.J. Gutiérrez, J. Raptor Res. 33(2):143-148
♦ ⁹International Flea Database
♦ ¹⁰Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

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