Southeastern Pocket Gopher
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| Southeastern Pocket Gopher | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Geomys |
| Species: | G. pinetis |
| Binomial name | |
| Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817 |
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| Subspecies | |
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G. p. austrinus |
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The Southeastern Pocket Gopher, Geomys pinetis, is a species of pocket gopher that is native to the Southeastern United States. It occurs in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, where it is the only pocket gopher.
[edit] References
- ^ Linzey, A.V. & NatureServe (Hammerson, G.) (2008). Geomys pinetis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 January 2009.
[edit] Further reading
- Ecological Engineers: Southeastern Pocket Gophers are one of Nature's Architects - University of Florida fact sheet
- J. L. Patton (2005). "Geomys pinetis". In Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M.. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 859–870. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12800083.
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