Species

Thomomys bottae (Botta’s pocket gopher)

Thomomys bottae. Photo: (c) g1cat, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Botta’s pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some sources as valley pocket gopher, particularly in California. Both the specific and common names of this species honor Paul-Émile Botta, a naturalist and archaeologist who collected mammals in California in the 1820s and 1830s.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
    - Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
      - Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
        Subclass: Theria (Therians)
        Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
        Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
        Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
        Suborder: Castorimorpha (Beavers, pocket gophers, and allies)
        Family: Geomyidae (Pocket gophers)
        Subfamily: Geomyinae
        Tribe: Thomomyini (Western pocket gophers)
        Genus: Thomomys (Western pocket gophers)
        Species: Thomomys bottae (Botta’s pocket gopher)

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