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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15748679

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15757072

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E2879C-0776-047A-3051-FBA2B9EB582B

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scientific name

Geomys breviceps Baird, 1855
status

 

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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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Geomyidae

Genus

Geomys

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