Geomyidae

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Noun1.Geomyidae - North American pocket gophers
mammal family - a family of mammals
genus Geomys, Geomys - type genus of the Geomyidae
pocket gopher, pouched rat, gopher - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
genus Thomomys, Thomomys - western pocket gophers
Sciuromorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha - large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.
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(1988) A new species of Geomydoecus (Mallophaga: Trichodectidae) from Pappogeomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae) pocket gophers in Jalisco, Mexico.
Pelage color variation in pocket gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) in relation to sex, age and differences in habitat.
Population dynamics and bioenergetics of a fossorial herbivore, Thomomys talpoides (Rodentia: Geomyidae), in a spruce-fir sere.
Geomys bursarius (Rodentia: Geomyidae) Mammalian Species 43(879): 104-117.
The nonvolant assemblage includes only cricetid rodents and the mouse opossum Tlacuatzin canescens; no squirrels (Sciuridae) or gophers (Geomyidae) were included.
Pocket gophers (family Geomyidae) are subterranean rodents found throughout North America.
umbrinus, Uinta chipmunk x -- -- Tamiasciurus douglasii, douglas' squirrel x -- -- Sciuridae genus et species unidentified -- 6 9 Geomyidae Thomomys bottae, Botta's pocket gopher x -- -- T.
Geomyidae (pocket gophers).--The plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) is listed as special concern in Indiana.
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