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Yellow-faced pocket gopher

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Geomyidae
Species : Pappogeomys castanops

 

The Yellow-faced pocket gopher is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the yellow-faced pocket gopher

1990: Yellow-faced pocket gopher is found in the Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge (Maxwell NWR, 1990) *15*.

At the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Pappogeomys castanops is listed as Mexican Pocket Gopher *16*.

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Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher is a 'pest' (an unwanted organism) that can be controlled through the use of pesticides.

However, the yellow-faced pocket gopher is confined to drier sites. (Full text)

Description: The yellow-faced pocket gopher is the largest gopher in Kansas. (Full text)

html The yellow-faced pocket gopher is found only in the southwestern part of the state where it inhabits areas of heavy, clay soils in both bottomlands and uplands, but prefers the shallower soils of the latter. (Full text)

Pocket Gophers (Family Geomyidae) The yellow-faced pocket gopher is found only in the southwestern part of the state where it inhabits areas of heavy, clay soils in both bottomlands and uplands, but prefers the shallower soils of the latter. (Full text)

Yellow-faced pocket gophers are fossorial and are morphologically well adapted for burrowing. (Full text)

The Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher is from the order Rodentia. (Full text)