Goff's pocket gopher

Goff's southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis goffi) was a pocket gopher endemic to Brevard County, Florida, United States. The last sightings recorded were in 1955. They burrowed and lived mostly underground eating mainly underground vegetation. Their habitat was temperate desert and sandy coastline. Due to human population growth and development of its habitat, this gopher is now extinct.

Goff's pocket gopher
Conservation status
Extinct (1955)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Geomyidae
Genus:	Geomys
Species:	G. pinetis
Subspecies:	†G. p. goffi
Trinomial name
†Geomys pinetis goffi Sherman, 1944

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120717000152/http://extinctanimals.petermaas.nl/