Botta's pocket gopher
（重定向自Thomomys bottae）
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![Botta's pocket gopher skull and teeth from Elliot 1901](/Images/godic/202502/16/Thomomys_bottae_skull_from_Elliot_19015648.jpg")
![An individual emerging from a burrow in southern California](/Images/godic/202502/16/ThomomysBottae_97885648.JPG")
Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some sources as valley pocket gopher, particularly in California. Both the specific and common names of this species honor Paul-Émile Botta, a naturalist and archaeologist who collected mammals in California in the 1820s and 1830s.