Pocket Gophers and Pocket Gopher Control - Part 3 of 11 - Pocket Gopher Geography

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Pocket gophers are found only in the Western Hemisphere ranging from Panama in the south to Alberta in the north.

• Plains pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius) are found in the central plains from Canada south through Texas and Louisiana.
  
• Botta’s pocket gophers (Thomomys bottae) are found in most of the southern half of the western United States
  

• Northern pocket gophers (Thomomys talpoides) range throughout most of the states in the northern half of the western United States
  
• Yellow-faced pocket gophers (Pappogeomys castanops) occur form Mexico, along the western edge of Texas, eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and into the panhandle of Oklahoma.
  

• Southeastern pocket gophers (Geomys pinetis) are found in northern and central Florida, southern Georgia, and southeastern Alabama.
  
• Southern pocket gophers (Thomomys umbrinus) range primarily in Central America, but occur in extreme southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.
  
• Desert pocket gophers (Geomys arenarius) occur only in southwestern New Mexico and the extreme western edge of Texas.
  
• Mazama pocket gophers (Thomomys mazama), mountain pocket gophers (Thomomys monticola), and Camas pocket gophers (Thomomys bulbivorus) have more limited distributions in the extreme western United States.
  

Acknowledgment:


• Case, R. M., 1994. Pocket gophers: Prevention and control of wildlife damage. Department of Forestry, Fisheries
  and Wildlife. University of Nebraska
  
  
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology - Animal Diversity Web
  

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