Geomys bursarius
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Geomys bursarius (Shaw, 1800). Philosophical Magazine, 6:215.
TYPE LOCALITY: USA, upper Mississippi Valley (restricted to Minnesota, Sherburne Co., Elk River by Swenk, 1939).
DISTRIBUTION: SC Manitoba (Canada) to NW Indiana, SW Louisiana, SC Texas, and EC New Mexico (USA).
SYNONYMS: alba Rafinesque, ammophilus Davis, attwateri Merriam; brazensis Davis, breviceps Baird, canadensis Lichtenstein, dutcheri Davis, /«sea Rafinesque, hylaeus Blossom, illinoensis Komarek and Spencer, industrius Villa and Hall, jugossicularis Hooper, knoxjonesi Baker and Genoways, levisagittalis Swenk, Uanensis Bailey, ludemani Davis, lutescens Merriam, major Davis, majusculus Swenk, missouriensis McLaughlin, pratincola Davis, saccatus Mitchell, sagittalis Merriam, terricolus Davis, texensis Merriam, vinaceus Swenk, wisconsinensis Jackson.
COMMENTS: For subspecies, see Hall (1981:499-500). Revised by Merriam (1895a) and, in part, by Honeycutt and Schmidly (1979). The form lutescens was considered as a valid species by Heaney and Timm (1983 a, 1985) but as a subspecies by Burns et al. (1985) and Sudman et al. (1987). Tucker and Schmidly (1981) and Williams and Cameron (1991) considered attwateri distinct from bursarius, as did Bradley et al. (1991) for knoxjonesi, Sulentich et al. (1991) for breviceps, and Block and Zimmerman (1991) for attwateri, breviceps, knoxjonesi, and texensis.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353077 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD4CFFCDC06CFFF7FF9DFF9D486A8062 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/417587B5C06CFFF6FF46F6974C128220 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205130238 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193478/taxon/417587B5C06CFFF6FF46F6974C128220.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
References
- Swenk, M. H. 1939. A study of local size variation in the prairie pocket gopher (Geomys lutescens), with description of a new subspecies from Nebraska. Missouri Valley Fauna, 1: 1 - 8.
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Merriam, C. H. 1895 a. Monographic revision of the pocket gophers, family Geomyidae (exclusive of the species of Thomomys). North American Fauna, 8: 1 - 258.
- Honeycutt, R. L., and D. J. Schmidly. 1979. Chromosomal and morphological variation in the plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius in Texas and adjacent states. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 58: 1 - 54.
- Heaney, L. R., and R. M. Timm. 1983 a. Relationships of pocket gophers of the genus Geomys from the central and northern Great Plains. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 74: 1 - 59.
- Wolman, A. A. 1985. Gray whale- - Eschrichtus robustus. Pp. 67 - 90, in Handbook of marine mammals: The sirenians and baleen whales (S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds.). Academic Press, London, 3: 1 - 362.
- Burns, J. C., J. R. Choate, and E. G. Zimmerman. 1985. Systematic relationships of pocket gophers (genus Geomys) on the Central Great Plains. Journal of Mammalogy, 66: 102 - 118.
- Sudman, P. D., J. R. Choate, and E. G. Zimmerman. 1987. Taxonomy of chromosomal races of Geomys bursarius lutescens Merriam. Journal of Mammalogy, 68: 526 - 543.
- Tucker, P. K., and D. J. Schmidly. 1981. Studies of a contact zone among three chromosomal races of Geomys bursarius in east Texas. Journal of Mammalogy, 62: 258 - 272.
- Williams, L. R., and G. N. Cameron. 1991. Geomys attwateri. Mammalian Species, 382: 1 - 5.
- Bradley, R. D., S. K. Davis, S. F. Lockwood, J. W. Bickham, and R. J. Baker. 1991. Hybrid breakdown and cellular-DNA content in a contact zone between two species of pocket gophers (Geomys). Journal of Mammalogy, 72: 697 - 705.
- Sulentich, J. M., L. R. Williams, and G. N. Cameron. 1991. Geomys breviceps. Mammalian Species, 383: 1 - 4.
- Block, S. B., and E. G. Zimmerman. 1991. Allozymic variation and systematics of plains pocket gophers (Geomys) of south-central Texas. Southwestern Naturalist, 36: 29 - 36.