Geomys bursarius (Rodentia: Geomyidae)

Geomys bursarius (Rodentia: Geomyidae)

Geomys bursarius (Shaw, 1800) is a geomyid commonly called the plains pocket gopher. A stocky rodent morphologically adapted for a fossorial life, it is 1 of 11 species in the genus Geomys. It occurs in southern Manitoba, Canada, and throughout the central United States southward to Texas. It prefers open grasslands and agricultural fields and is considered an economic pest. The subspecies G. b...

A New Species of Geomydoecus (Mallophaga: Trichodectidae) from the Texas Pocket Gopher, Geomys personatus (Rodentia: Geomyidae)

Geomydoecus dalgleishi n. sp. is described and illustrated for material off Geomys personatus fuscus from southern Texas. Two species of Geomydoecus Ewing are currently recognized from the Texas pocket gopher, Geomys personatus True. Ewing (1936) described Geomydoecus texanus from Geomys personatus fallax Merriam collected at Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi Bay, [Nueces County], Texas. Davis (1940)...

Attempted Extermination of the Pocket Gopher, Geomys Bursarius.

Arthropod and helminth parasites from the Plains Pocket Gopher, Geomys bursarius bursarius from the hosts' northern boundary range in Minnesota.

As part of a continuing and more general study of the diversity of parasites from subterranean mammals in central North America, individuals of the Plains Pocket Gopher, Geomys bursarius bursarius, were collected from 7 localities in northwestern Minnesota from September 1991 through October 1996. Arthropods collected included the fleas, Opisocrostis bruneri (4 of 124, 3.2%), Foxella ignota ign...

Multilocus phylogenetics of a rapid radiation in the genus Thomomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae).

Species complexes undergoing rapid radiation present a challenge in molecular systematics because of the possibility that ancestral polymorphism is retained in component gene trees. Coalescent theory has demonstrated that gene trees often fail to match lineage trees when taxon divergence times are less than the ancestral effective population sizes. Suggestions to increase the number of loci and...