Species: Thomomys mazama couchi

Shelton Pocket Gopher
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Mammalia

    Order

    Rodentia

    Family

    Geomyidae

    Genus

    Thomomys

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Puget Sound Pocket Gopher
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Rodents
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae - Thomomys - .
    Migration
    false - false - false
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    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.

    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)
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