Geomys
{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Late Miocene - Recent
| image = Taschenratte-drawing.jpg
| image_caption = Plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius
| taxon = Geomys
| authority = Rafinesque, 1817
| type_species = Geomys pinetis
| type_species_authority = Rafinesque, 1817
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophersSearch results for "Geomys" on the [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/explore.html ASM Mammal Diversity Database]. often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial herbivores.
Species
- 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{{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Robert A. |date=9 June 2016 |title=Geomys tyrioni, a new species of early Pleistocene dwarf pocket gopher from the Meade Basin of southwestern Kansas |url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyw024 |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |language=en |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=949–959 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyw024 |issn=0022-2372 |access-date=15 December 2024 |via=Oxford Academic}}
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