Meaning of pocket gopher | Babel Free

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Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.

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“The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).”

“Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky.”

“Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys.”

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