Attwater's pocket gopher
Species of rodent
| Attwater's pocket gopher | |
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Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Geomys |
| Species: | G. attwateri |
| Binomial name | |
| Geomys attwateri Merriam, 1895 | |
| Synonyms | |
| Geomys bursarius attwateri | |
Attwater's pocket gopher (Geomys attwateri) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to the Texas Coastal Bend in the southcentral United States.
This species was named in honor of English naturalist Henry Philemon Attwater.[2]
References
- ^ Cassola, F. (2016). "Geomys attwateri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136380A22217970. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136380A22217970.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The eponym dictionary of mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801895333.
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Extant species of family Geomyidae (Pocket gophers)
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Castorimorpha
- Superfamily: Geomyoidea
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher (C. castanops)
- Oriental Basin pocket gopher (C. fulvescens)
- Smoky pocket gopher (C. fumosus)
- Goldman's pocket gopher (C. goldmani)
- Merriam's pocket gopher (C. merriami)
- Perote pocket gopher (C. perotensis)
- Flat-headed pocket gopher (C. planiceps)
(Eastern pocket gophers)
- Desert pocket gopher (G. arenarius)
- Attwater's pocket gopher (G. attwateri)
- Baird's pocket gopher (G. breviceps)
- Plains pocket gopher (G. bursarius)
- Geomys jugossicularis
- Knox Jones's pocket gopher (G. knoxjonesi)
- G. lutescens
- Texas pocket gopher (G. personatus)
- Southeastern pocket gopher (G. pinetis)
- G. streckeri
- Central Texas pocket gopher (G. texensis)
- Tropical pocket gopher (G. tropicalis)
- Chiriqui pocket gopher (H. cavator)
- Cherrie's pocket gopher (H. cherriei)
- Darien pocket gopher (H. dariensis)
- Variable pocket gopher (H. heterodus)
- Hispid pocket gopher (H. hispidus)
- Big pocket gopher (H. lanius)
- Underwood's pocket gopher (H. underwoodi)
- Giant pocket gopher (O. grandis)
- Buller's pocket gopher (P. bulleri)
(Smooth-toothed
pocket gophers)
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| Subgenus Thomomys |
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- Michoacan pocket gopher (Z. trichopus)
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