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Geomyidae Bonaparte, 1845
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180213

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Family
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	Pocket Gophers [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2012

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cord�s, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vert�br�s, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammif�res, mam�fero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, pre�, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents
	Suborder	Castorimorpha A. E. Wood, 1955
	Family	Geomyidae Bonaparte, 1845 – Pocket Gophers
		Direct Children:
	Genus	Cratogeomys Merriam, 1895
	Genus	Geomys Rafinesque, 1817 – Eastern Pocket Gophers
	Genus	Orthogeomys Merriam, 1895 – Giant Pocket Gophers
	Genus	Pappogeomys Merriam, 1895 – tuzas, Mexican Pocket Gophers
	Genus	Thomomys Wied-Neuwied, 1839 – Smooth-toothed Pocket Gophers, Western Pocket Gophers
	Genus	Zygogeomys Merriam, 1895

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Geomyidae

	Expert:	James L. Patton
	Notes:	Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
	Reference for:	Geomyidae

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Geomyidae

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Geomyidae

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Geomyidae

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
	Page(s):	2142
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Geomyidae

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
	Publication Date:	2000
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Common Names of Mammals of the World
	Page(s):	xiv + 204
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-383-3
	Notes:	With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
	Reference for:	Geomyidae, Pocket Gophers [English]

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: Revised by Russell (1968a), who placed all Recent genera in one of two tribes in the subfamily Geomyinae: Geomyini (Geomys, Pappogeomys, Orthogeomys, and Zygogeomys) and Thomomyini (Thomomys); he included Macrogeomys and Heterogeomys as subgenera of Orthogeomys, an action followed by more recent authors (Hafner, 1982, 1991; Hall, 1981), and Cratogeomys as a subgenus of Pappogeomys (see also Russell, 1968b). The latter action was accepted by Hall (1981) and Patton (1993) but not by J. K. Jon...

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