Geomys breviceps Baird, 1855

Hoffman, Justin D., Lester, Courtney, Doucet, Darian & Iguwe, Damilola, 2024, UPDATED CHECKLIST AND DISTRIBUTION Of WILD TERRESTRIAL MAMMALS IN LOUISIANA, Occasional Papers of the Museum 389, pp. 1-28 : 12

Geomys breviceps Baird, 1855

Baird’s Pocket Gopher

Lowery (1974) regarded all pocket gophers in Louisiana as Geomys bursarius . That species complex was then split, with all Louisiana gophers being assigned to G. breviceps (Honeycutt and Schmidly 1979) . More recent genetic analysis has further split Louisiana gophers into three distinct species ( Bradley et al. 2023). The species retained as Geomys breviceps can be found as a small, isolated population from Morehouse Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Several new specimens have been collected since Lowery (1974), however no parish records were reported.