Attwater's pocket gopher (''Geomys attwateri'') is a species of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ...
in the family
Geomyidae. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to the
Texas Coastal Bend in the southcentral United States.
This species was named in honor of English
naturalist Henry Philemon Attwater.
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References
Attwater's Pocket Gopher
Mammals of the United States
Mammals described in 1895
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