Species: Thomomys mazama couchi
Shelton Pocket Gopher
Species
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Rodentia
Family
Geomyidae
Genus
Thomomys
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Puget Sound Pocket Gopher
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Rodents
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae - Thomomys - .
Ecology and Life History
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4T1
Global Status Last Reviewed
2008-08-22
Global Status Last Changed
1997-01-15
Other Status
C - C: Candidate - 2006-09-12 - The 2009 Candidate Notice of Review includes an updated summary for this species, as they made a continued warranted-but-precluded 12-month finding on a resubmitted petition.
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
A - <100 square km (less than about 40 square miles) - A - The range includes a small area in Mason County, southwestern Washington (Stinson 2005). The subspecies persists at the Scott's Prairie/Shelton airport site and perhaps 2 nearby areas (Stinson 2005). Steinberg (1996) found no trace of the <i>T. m. couchi </i>population at Lost Lake Prairie reported by Dalquest and Scheffer (1944), nor in Shelton Valley, Buck Prairie, Bulb Farm Rd, or in fields or roadsides around Satsop, Elma, and Cedarville. McKewen Prairie is mostly forested, with the last known gophers found only on a regenerating clearcut and along a road right-of-way (Stinson 2005). Steinberg reported possible gopher mounds on the grounds of the state penitentiary at Shelton, but this needs further investigation (Stinson 2005).
Global Range Code
A
Global Range Description
<100 square km (less than about 40 square miles)