Geomys
Encyclopedia
The genus
Geomys contains nine species
of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial
herbivores.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Geomys contains nine species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial
Fossorial
A fossorial organism is one that is adapted to digging and life underground such as the badger, the naked mole rat, and the mole salamanders Ambystomatidae...
herbivores.
Species
- Geomys
- Geomys arenarius (Desert pocket gopher)
- Geomys attwateri (Attwater's pocket gopher)
- Geomys breviceps (Baird's pocket gopher)
- Geomys bursarius (Plains pocket gopher)
- Geomys knoxjonesi (Knox Jones's pocket gopher)
- Geomys personatus (Texas pocket gopher)
- Geomys pinetis (Southeastern pocket gopher)
- Geomys texensis (Llano pocket gopher)
- Geomys tropicalis (Tropical pocket gopher)