Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1806
Primary Source Reference:
"Walk through the Phil[adelphi]a Museum" (1805-1806), p. 30
Additional Source Text:
"Found in Georgia, whose pouches on each side of its head, are on the outside of its mouth, the inside of them covered with short hair; this pouch intirely on the out side of the mouth differs totally from the description of the Hamster of Europe. This Animal is vulgarly called the Salamander; perhaps because it burrows in the hot sand-hills of that State."
Notes:
In the southeastern United States, salamander is the local term for the pocket gopher (Geomys pineta).
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Scientific Name:
Mus
Current Common Name:
Southeastern pocket gopher
Current Scientific Name
Geomys pineta
