Tacoma Pocket Gopher

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iTacoma Pocket Gopher
Conservation status
Extinct  (1970)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Geomyidae Genus: Thomomys Species: T. mazama Subspecies: T. m. tacomensis
Trinomial name
Thomomys mazama tacomensis Taylor, 1919

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. The animal became extinct in 1970.

[edit] References

Yensen (2000). Thomomys mazama ssp. tacomensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.