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  3. Chordates
  4. Mammals
  5. Rodents
  6. Castorimorphs
  7. Pocket Gophers

family

Pocket Gophers

Geomyidae

Includes
16 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Geomyinae 16 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native pocket gophers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Botta's Pocket Gopher Megascapheus bottae 6,170 observations
  • Northern Pocket Gopher Thomomys talpoides 1,700 observations
  • Plains Pocket Gopher Geomys bursarius 1,229 observations
  • Fulvous Pocket Gopher Megascapheus fulvus 1,219 observations
  • Attwater's Pocket Gopher Geomys attwateri 622 observations
  • Southeastern Pocket Gopher Geomys pinetis 561 observations
  • Baird's Pocket Gopher Geomys breviceps 521 observations
  • Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys castanops 227 observations
  • Texas Pocket Gopher Geomys personatus 222 observations
  • Camas Pocket Gopher Megascapheus bulbivorus 145 observations
  • Llano Pocket Gopher Geomys texensis 109 observations
  • Mountain Pocket Gopher Thomomys monticolus 84 observations
  • Western Pocket Gopher Thomomys mazama 70 observations
  • Southern Pocket Gopher Megascapheus umbrinus 63 observations
  • Jones' Pocket Gopher Geomys knoxjonesi 36 observations
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