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Thomomys talpoides (northern pocket gopher)

Synonyms: Cricetus talpoides (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) was first discovered by Lewis and Clark on April 9, 1805 at the mouth of the Knife River, North Dakota. These animals are often rich brown or yellowish brown, but also grayish or closely approaching local soil color and have white markings under chin. They also weigh less than a quarter of a pound (110 grams). Their habitat consists usually of good soil in meadows or along streams; most often in mountains, but also in lowlands.
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Infraspecies

Thomomys talpoides aequalidens
Thomomys talpoides agrestis
Thomomys talpoides andersoni
Thomomys talpoides attenuatus
Thomomys talpoides bridgeri
Thomomys talpoides bullatus
Thomomys talpoides caryi
Thomomys talpoides cheyennensis
Thomomys talpoides cognatus
Thomomys talpoides columbianus
Thomomys talpoides devexus
Thomomys talpoides douglasii (Brush Prairie pocket gopher)
Thomomys talpoides duranti
Thomomys talpoides falcifer
Thomomys talpoides fisheri
Thomomys talpoides fossor
Thomomys talpoides fuscus
Thomomys talpoides gracilis
Thomomys talpoides immunis
Thomomys talpoides incensus
Thomomys talpoides kaibabensis
Thomomys talpoides kelloggi
Thomomys talpoides levis
Thomomys talpoides limosus
Thomomys talpoides loringi
Thomomys talpoides macrotis (Douglas County pocket gopher)
Thomomys talpoides medius
Thomomys talpoides meritus
Thomomys talpoides monoensis
Thomomys talpoides moorei
Thomomys talpoides nebulosus
Thomomys talpoides ocius
Thomomys talpoides oquirrhensis
Thomomys talpoides parowanensis
Thomomys talpoides pierreicolus
Thomomys talpoides pryori
Thomomys talpoides quadratus
Thomomys talpoides ravus
Thomomys talpoides relicinus
Thomomys talpoides retrorsus
Thomomys talpoides rostralis
Thomomys talpoides rufescens
Thomomys talpoides saturatus
Thomomys talpoides segregatus
Thomomys talpoides shawi
Thomomys talpoides talpoides
Thomomys talpoides taylori
Thomomys talpoides tenellus
Thomomys talpoides trivialis
Thomomys talpoides uinta
Thomomys talpoides wallowa
Thomomys talpoides wasatchensis
Thomomys talpoides whitmani
Thomomys talpoides yakimensis

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

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  104 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  11 months 26 days
Gestation [1]  28 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (23 cm)
Weaning [1]  40 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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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
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 talpoides, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 618, pp. 1-11 (1999)
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.
6Comparative Diets of Burrowing Owls in Oregon and Washington, Gregory A. Green, Richard E. Fitzner, Robert G. Anthony and Lee E. Rogers, Northwest Science, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1993, pp. 88-93
7National Geographic Magazine - May 2016 - Yellowstone - The Carnivore Comeback
8International Flea Database
9Gibson, 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