Goff's Pocket Gopher

Goff's Pocket Gopher

Taxobox
name = Goff's Pocket Gopher
status = EX
extinct = 1955
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Geomyidae
genus = "Geomys"
species = "G. pinetis"
subspecies = "G. p. goffi"
trinomial = "Geomys pinetis goffi"
trinomial_authority = Sherman, 1944

Goff's southeastern pocket gopher ("Geomys pinetis goffi") was a pocket gopher endemic to Brevard County, Florida. The last sightings recorded were in 1955. They burrowed and lived mostly underground eating mainly underground vegetation. Their habitat was temperate desert and sandy coastline. Due to human population growth and development of its habitat, this gopher is now extinct.

Sources

* http://extinctanimals.petermaas.nl/


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