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Thomomys mazama (western pocket gopher)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) is a smooth-toothed pocket gopher restricted to the Pacific Northwest. The species ranges from coastal Washington, through Oregon, and into north-central California.
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Infraspecies

Thomomys mazama couchi (Shelton pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama glacialis (Roy Prairie pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama helleri (Goldbeach western pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama hesperus
Thomomys mazama louiei (Cathlamet pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama mazama
Thomomys mazama melanops (Olympic pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama nasicus
Thomomys mazama niger
Thomomys mazama oregonus
Thomomys mazama premaxillaris
Thomomys mazama pugetensis (Olympia pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama tacomensis (Tacoma pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama tumuli (Tenino pocket gopher)
Thomomys mazama yelmensis (Yelm pocket gopher)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.85
EDGE Score: 2.7
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  96 grams
Female Weight [1]  87 grams
Male Weight [1]  105 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  20.7 %
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [3]  30 days
Litter Size [3]  5
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  9 inches (22 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Ia   Idaho, United States
H.J. Andrews Biosphere Reserve 15815 Oregon, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Spicata comis comis[7]

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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5Thomomys mazama, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 641, pp. 1–7 (2000)
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7International Flea Database
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