Tacoma pocket gopher
| Tacoma pocket gopher | |
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Extinct (1970)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Thomomys |
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| Subspecies: | †T. m. tacomensis
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Thomomys mazama tacomensis Taylor, 1919
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The Tacoma pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama tacomensis) was a subspecies of the Mazama pocket gopher that was restricted to a few isolated populations in the southern Puget Sound area and on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. The animal became extinct in 1970.
References
[edit]Yensen (2000). "Thomomys mazama ssp. tacomensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000. Retrieved 11 May 2006.
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