Geomys
The genus Geomys contains 12 extant species of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers. Like all pocket gophers, members of this genus are fossorial herbivores.
Species
Extant species include:- Desert pocket gopher
- Attwater's pocket gopher
- Baird's pocket gopher
- Plains pocket gopher
- Hall's pocket gopher
- Knox Jones's pocket gopher
- Sand Hills pocket gopher
- Texas pocket gopher
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Strecker's pocket gopher
- Central Texas pocket gopher
- Tropical pocket gopher
- †''Geomys tyrioni''