#0511 · 🦊 mammals
Northern Pocket Gopher
🇳🇱 Berggoffer ·Thomomys talpoides
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Cathy Pasterczyk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Kevin Merrell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Leora Cohen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © dtevs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © wsmum · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © gbudyk · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Robin Holm · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Rosalee Faint · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Braden J. Judson · CC0
what is it?
The northern pocket gopher ( Thomomys talpoides ) was first discovered by Lewis and Clark on April 9, 1805 at the mouth of the Knife River, North Dakota. These animals are often rich brown or yellowish brown, but also grayish or closely approaching local soil color and have white markings under chin. They also weigh less than a quarter of a pound (110 grams).
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,776 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Pocket Gopher
- Nederlands
- Berggoffer
- scientific name
- Thomomys talpoides
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Geomyidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,776
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Geomyidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 44066, Wikidata Q1769015, GBIF 2439383, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.