Educational resources on Townsend's Pocket Gopher

Townsend's Pocket Gopher or Thomomys townsendii is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Townsend's Pocket Gopher

Academic web links for the Townsend's Pocket Gopher.

Townsend's Pocket Gopher
Order: Rodentia Order Description: Rodents Family: Geomy idae Family Description: Pocket Gophers
imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Rod/Gophers/topogo/tpgo.htm

North American Mammals: Thomomys townsendii
Thomomys townsendii Townsend's Pocket Gopher Order: Rodentia Family: Geomyidae ... Townsend's Pocket Gophers require deep, moist soils of river valleys and
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=408

Pocket Gophers Index
Townsend's Pocket Gopher ... Geomyidae Members of family Geomyidae, the pocket gophers, are
imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Rod/Gophers/pkgfdex.htm

North American Mammals: Search Results
Thomomys townsendii (Townsend's Pocket Gopher) Thomomys umbrinus (Southern Pocket Gopher) Family: Heteromyidae (Pocket Mice, Kangaroo Rats
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_menu.cfm?order=8

North American Mammals: Search Results
Thomomys talpoides (Northern Pocket Gopher) Thomomys townsendii (Townsend's Pocket Gopher) Thomomys umbrinus (Southern Pocket Gopher)
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_menu.cfm?family=16

North American Mammals: Thomomys townsendii
Thomomys townsendii (Townsend's Pocket Gopher) Credit: painting by Elizabeth McClelland from Kays and Wilson's
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/full_image.cfm?image_id=1360

UMF/ST
Townsend’s pocket gopher (Thomomys townsendii) X : Southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) X : X : Bailey’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi)
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/Resources/Table_2.doc

Mammalian Species Accounts
Mammalian Species is published regularly by the American Society of Mammalogists with 25-30 accounts issued each year, each summarizing the current understanding of the biology of
www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/msiaccounts.html

UMF/ST
Townsend’s pocket gopher (Thomomys townsendii) X : Southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) X : Bailey’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi)
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/Resources/Table_5.doc

UCSB Biogeography Lab
The subspecies of Townsend’s pocket gopher found in California is restricted to the Honey Lake area in Lassen County (Zeiner et al. 1990).
www.biogeog.ucsb.edu/projects/gap/report/gap_rep_ch6.html