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Castorimorpha
beavers, gophers, kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and relatives



  • plains pocket gopher
    Geomys bursarius
  • Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse
    Heteromys desmarestianus
  • Salvin's spiny pocket mouse
    Liomys salvini

  • pale kangaroo mouse
    Microdipodops pallidus
  • giant pocket gopher
    Orthogeomys grandis
  • Buller's pocket gopher
    Pappogeomys bulleri

  • San Joaquin pocket mouse
    Perognathus inornatus
  • western pocket gophers
    Thomomys
  • Botta's pocket gopher
    Thomomys bottae

  • Michoacan pocket gopher
    Zygogeomys trichopus



To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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