Pocket gopher
The Pocket Gophers are rodents, forming the family Geomyidae. These are the true gophers, though several ground squirrels of the family Sciuridae are often called gophers also. The name Pocket Gopher on its own can also refer to one subspecies of the family, Thomomys bottae desertorum
Three genera are recognised, Cratogeomys, Geomys and Teomomys. Species include:
- Cratogeomys castanops, the Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher, found in the south-central United States
- Geomys arenarius, two subspecies, the Desert and White Sands Pocket Gophers
- G. attwateri, Attwater's Pocket Gopher
- G. bursarius, the Plains Pocket Gopher (two subspecies)
- G. knoxjonesi, Jones' Pocket Gopher
- G. personatus, 5 subspecies including the Texas, Davis, Maritime and Carrizo Springs Pocket Gophers
- G. pinetis, 4 subspecies, the Southeastern, Cumberland Island, Sherman's and Goff's Pocket Gophers
- G. texensis, 2 subspecies, including the LLano Pocket Gopher.
- Thomomys bottae, many subspecies, including the Botta's, Fish Spring, Bonneville, Clear Lake, San Antonio, Pistol River, Mount Ellen, Guadalupe, Limpia, Mearns', Stansbury Island, Antelope Island , Cebolleta, Salinas, Skull Valley, Swasey Springs, Harquahala and Limpia Greek Pocket Gophers.
- T. bulbivorus, Camas Pocket Gopher
- T. clusius, the Wyoming Pocket Gopher
- T. idahoensis, the Idaho Pocket Gopher
- T. mazama, several subspecies including the Western, Gold Beach, Olympic, Tacoma Pocket Gophers.
- T. monticola, the Mountain Pocket Gopher
- T. talpoides, the Northern Pocket Gopher (very widely distributed); several subspecies including the Cheyenne Northern Pocket Gopher