Geomys
Genus of rodents
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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.
| Geomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent | |
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| Plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Geomyidae |
| Genus: | Geomys Rafinesque, 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817 | |
| Species | |
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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: