eastern pocket gopher
geomys latin

The genus Geomys contains nine species of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers.

In total, there are three almost identical species of eastern pocket gopher; Geomys attwateri, G. bursarius, and G. breviceps.

Genus Geomys - eastern pocket gophers; principally found in the south-western United States, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The genus Geomys contains nine species of pocket gophers often collectively referred to as the eastern pocket gophers.

However, where Geomys (another genus of pocket gophers) is present, Cratogeomys is restricted to "denser, shallower, sometimes rocket soils."

This would support the hypothesis that drier environmental conditions with extensive prairies extended further south during the Late Wisconsinan glacial period, supporting populations of Geomys and other prairie species such as thirteen-lined ground squirrels and prairie chickens.

RBP3 is also useful at lower taxonomic levels, e.g., in muroid rodents and Malagasy primates, at the phylogeography level in Geomys and Apodemus rodents, and even for carnivora species identification purposes.