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Geomys breviceps (Baird's pocket gopher)

Synonyms: Geomys bursarius breviceps

Wikipedia Abstract

Baird’s pocket gopher or the Louisiana pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to the southern United States. In total, there are three almost identical species of eastern pocket gopher; Geomys attwateri, G. bursarius, and G. breviceps. G. breviceps is larger in size, G. attwateri is medium-sized and G. bursarius is a bit smaller. Other than by size variation they are not identifiable by external features. Baird’s pocket gophers are small rodents with most of their weight on the top half of their bodies.
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Infraspecies

Geomys breviceps breviceps
Geomys breviceps sagittalis

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

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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
♦ 3Geomys breviceps, James M. Sulentich, Lawrence R. Williams, and Guy N. Cameron, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 383, pp. 1-4 (1991)
♦ 4PREY HANDLING AND DIET OF LOUISIANA PINE SNAKES (PITUOPHIS RUTHVENI) AND BLACK PINE SNAKES (P. MELANOLEUCUS LODINGI), WITH COM- PARISONS TO OTHER SELECTED COLUBRID SNAKES, D. Craig Rudolph, Shirley J. Burgdorf, Richard N. Conner, Christopher S. Collins, Daniel Saenz, Richard R. Schaefer, Toni Trees, C. Michael Duran, Marc Ealy, John G. Himes, Herpetological Natural History, 9(1), 2002, pages 57-62
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