Biology:Tacoma pocket gopher
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Short description: Extinct subspecies of rodent
| Tacoma pocket gopher | |
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Extinct (1970)
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Thomomys |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †T. m. tacomensis
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| Trinomial name | |
| Thomomys mazama tacomensis Taylor, 1919
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The Tacoma pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama tacomensis) was a subspecies of the Mazama pocket gopher that was restricted to a few isolated populations in the southern Puget Sound area and on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington (state) . The animal became extinct in 1970.
References
Yensen (2000). "Thomomys mazama ssp. tacomensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/21805/0. Retrieved 11 May 2006. Wikidata ☰ Q7674027 entry
