| Fossil range | Late Miocene - Recent |
|---|---|
| Taxon | Geomys |
| Authority | Rafinesque, 1817 |
| Type species | Geomys pinetis |
| Type species authority | Rafinesque, 1817 |
| Subdivision ranks | Species |
| Subdivision | See text |
The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophers[1] 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
- ^ 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.