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Thomomys townsendii (Townsend's pocket gopher)

Synonyms: Geomys townsendii (homotypic); Thomomys scudderi

Wikipedia Abstract

Townsend's pocket gopher (Thomomys townsendii) is a species of pocket gopher endemic to the northwestern United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Thomomys townsendii

Infraspecies

Thomomys townsendii nevadensis
Thomomys townsendii townsendii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.89
EDGE Score: 2.77
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  267 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Female Weight [1]  245 grams
Male Weight [1]  289 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  18 %
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 3 days
Male Maturity [1]  10 months 19 days
Gestation [1]  24 days
Litter Size [3]  7
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  6 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  7 inches (18 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Distichlis spicata (marsh spikegrass)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ictidomys tridecemlineatus (thirteen-lined ground squirrel)1
Microtus montanus (montane vole)1

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[4]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[4]
Buteo regalis (Ferruginous Hawk)[4]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Foxella ignota[3]
Orchopeas sexdentatus[3]

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
♦ 3Thomomys townsendii, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 719, pp. 1–6 (2003)
♦ 4Jorrit 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
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