| Geomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
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| Plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Geomys Rafinesque, 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817
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The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophers1 often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial herbivores.
Species
Extant species include:1
- Desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius)
- Attwater's pocket gopher (G. attwateri)
- Baird's pocket gopher (G. breviceps)
- Plains pocket gopher (G. bursarius)
- Hall's pocket gopher (G. jugossicularis)
- Knox Jones's pocket gopher (G. knoxjonesi)
- Sand Hills pocket gopher (G. lutescens)
- Texas pocket gopher (G. personatus)
- Southeastern pocket gopher (G. pinetis)
- Strecker's pocket gopher (G. streckeri)
- Central Texas pocket gopher (G. texensis)
- Tropical pocket gopher (G. tropicalis)
Extinct species:
References
References
- Search results for "Geomys" on the ASM Mammal Diversity Database Archived 2020-10-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- Martin, Robert A. (9 June 2016). "Geomys tyrioni, a new species of early Pleistocene dwarf pocket gopher from the Meade Basin of southwestern Kansas". Journal of Mammalogy. 97 (3): 949–959. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyw024. ISSN 0022-2372. Retrieved 15 December 2024 – via Oxford Academic.