Geomys streckeri

Geomys streckeri, also known as Strecker's pocket gopher, is a species of pocket gopher found in Texas. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Texas pocket gopher. Chromosomal analyses have proven this species to be distinct. Analysis of its mitochondrial cytochrome b points to this species being a sister clade to Geomys personatus, Geomys attwateri, and Geomys tropicalis.^[2] Other evidence, using a Bayesian analysis of ribosomal RNA and certain proteins, points to it being embedded within the G. personatus clade and being a sister species to G. attwateri.^[3]

Strecker's pocket gopher
Conservation status
Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Geomyidae
Genus:	Geomys
Species:	G. streckeri
Binomial name
Geomys streckeri W. B. Davis, 1943
Synonyms
Geomys personatus streckeri W. B. Davis, 1943

It is named after John Kern Strecker, an American herpetologist and namesake of the Strecker Museum.^[4]