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Technically, no. The loose, colloquial use of the term "gopher" might include any ground squirrel, and prairie dogs are indeed ground-living members of the family Sciuridae, but they are usually not considered gophers. True gophers are of the family Geomyidae, and not in the squirrel family at all. They are, of course, in the same order, Rodentia.

01:50, 13 December 2011