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 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

• 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