Botta's Pocket Gopher

Illustrated: Adult; compact cinnamon-brown pocket gopher, small eyes and rounded ears, prominent pale orange incisors, stout digging forelimbs with strong claws, short lightly haired tail.

Megascapheus bottae

All languages

English: Botta's Pocket Gopher
Norwegian: bottakinnposerotte
Japanese: セイブホリネズミ — せいぶほりねずみ — seibuhorinezumi
Korean: Megascapheus bottae — Scientific name; Korean name under review
Spanish: Tuza norteña
French: Gaufre de Botta
German: Gebirgs-Taschenratte

Beta edition. Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.

Reference sources

iNaturalist — draft common-name source
Animal Diversity Web — species account