Geomys
Appearance
Geomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
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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
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Species | |
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The genus Geomys contains 12 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
[edit]- Geomys[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)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Search results for "Geomys" on the ASM Mammal Diversity Database.