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Geomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
Plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Geomyidae
Genus:	Geomys Rafinesque, 1817
Type species
Geomys bursarius Shaw, 1800
Species
See text

The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial herbivores.

Species

Extant species include:

• 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:

• †Geomys tyrioni

References

1. ^ Search results for "Geomys" on the ASM Mammal Diversity Database.
2. 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.

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• Geomys
• Pocket gophers
• Rodent genera
• Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque