Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Geomyidae > Thomomys > Thomomys umbrinusThomomys umbrinus (southern pocket gopher)Synonyms: Geomys umbrinus (homotypic) Language: Spanish The southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States, usually in high altitude grassland and shrubland. It feeds on plant material and has an extensive burrow above which is a large heap of earth on the surface of the ground. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 15.74 EDGE Score: 2.82 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 166 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [3] | 8 months 3 days | | | Litter Size [3] | 3 | | Litters / Year [3] | 1 |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Cedar Breaks National Monument |
III |
6111 |
Utah, United States |
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Coronado National Monument National Memorial |
III |
4360 |
Arizona, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Great Basin National Park |
II |
77367 |
Nevada, United States |
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Iztaccihuatl-Popocatepetl National Park |
II |
224456 |
Mexico State, Mexico |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Reserva de la Biosfera El Cielo Biosphere Reserve |
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353161 |
Mexico |
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Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
6176727 |
Mexico |
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Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
955579 |
Queretaro, Mexico |
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Reserva de la Michilia Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
23405 |
Durango, Mexico |
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Reserva de Mapimi Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
849819 |
Chihuahua, Mexico |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403 ♦ 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 ♦ 4International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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