Geomys

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
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 pinetis Rafinesque, 1817
Species
See text

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:

• †Geomys tyrioni^[2]