pocket gopher

noun

pocket gopher

noun

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Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.

The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).1998, B. J. Verts, Leslie N. Carraway, Land Mammals of Oregon, page 223:
Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky.2005, Ernest H. Williams Jr., The Nature Handbook : A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, page 158:

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Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys.2011, Donald K. Grayson, The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory, page 196:

Synonyms: geomyid
Derived terms: camas pocket gopher, eastern pocket gopher, giant pocket gopher, smooth-toothed pocket gopher, western pocket gopher

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