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Geomys attwateri (Attwater's pocket gopher)

Wikipedia Abstract

Attwater's pocket gopher (Geomys attwateri) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to the United States. This species is named in honor of Henry Philemon Attwater.
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Infraspecies

Geomys attwateri ammophilus
Geomys attwateri attwateri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.7
EDGE Score: 1.9
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  147 grams
Birth Weight [2]  5 grams
Female Weight [1]  131 grams
Male Weight [1]  163 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  24.4 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  3 months 3 days
Male Maturity [2]  3 months 1 day
Gestation [2]  27 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  7 inches (18 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East Central Texas forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Texas blackland prairies United States Nearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands Mexico, United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  

Prey / Diet

Callirhoe involucrata (purple poppymallow)[1]
Commelina erecta (whitemouth dayflower)[1]
Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon (manienie)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Boselaphus tragocamelus (nilgai)1
Geomys breviceps (Baird's pocket gopher)1
Mayetiola destructor (hessian fly)1
Sylvilagus audubonii (Desert Cottontail)1

Predators

Canis latrans (Coyote)[1]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Geomys attwateri, Lawrence R. Williams and Guy N. Cameron, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 382, pp 1-5 (1991)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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