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commonly referred to
simply as gophers, are
burrowing rodents of the
family Geomyidae. The
roughly 41
species are all
endemic to
North and
Central America....
- Sciuridae, Castoridae, Heteromyidae, and
Geomyidae are
truly sciuromorphous. Some
authorities would exclude the
Geomyidae and
Heteromyidae from that list due...
- the free dictionary. A gopher, also
known as a "pocket gopher" (family
Geomyidae), is a
burrowing rodent native to
North America and
Central America. Gopher...
- Kingdom:
Animalia Phylum:
Chordata class:
Mammalia Order:
Rodentia Family:
Geomyidae Genus:
Thomomys Species: T. mazama Subspecies: †T. m.
tacomensis Trinomial...
- is a rodent, the
largest member in the
genus Thomomys, of the
family Geomyidae.
First described in 1829, it is
endemic to the
Willamette Valley of northwestern...
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Heteromyidae (kangaroo rats and allies)
Geomyidae (gophers)...
- the
latter name
belongs more
strictly to the
pocket gophers of
family Geomyidae, and the
former to
members of the
genus Cynomys. This
squirrel was named...
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closest relatives of the
heteromyids are
pocket gophers in the
family Geomyidae.
There are
about fifty-nine
members of the
family Heteromyidae divided...
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Family †Heliscomyidae
Family †Florentiamyidae
Family †Entoptychidae
Family Geomyidae –
pocket gophers Family Heteromyidae –
kangaroo rats and mice Diplolophidae...
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Geomyoidea is a
superfamily of
rodent that
contains the
pocket gophers (
Geomyidae), the
kangaroo rats and mice (Heteromyidae), and
their fossil relatives...
