Northern pocket gopher
Appearance
Mountain pocket gopher | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Geomyidae |
Genus: | Thomomys |
Species: | T. monticola
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Binomial name | |
Thomomys monticola J. A. Allen, 1893
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The mountain pocket gopher (Thomomys monticola) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae.
It is found in California and Nevada, and is endemic there, in the Western United States.[1] The Sierra Nevada are part of its range.
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN2008 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of