Geomys breviceps Baird 1855

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Geomyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 859-870 : 862

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Type Locality: USA, Louisiana, Morehouse Parish, Mer Rouge.

Vernacular Names: Baird's Pocket Gopher.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Geomys breviceps subsp. breviceps Baird 1855

Subspecies Geomys breviceps subsp. sagittalis Merriam 1895

Distribution: W Louisiana, E Texas, E Oklahoma, and SW Arkansas ( USA).

Discussion: Reviewed by Sulentich et al. (1991, Mammalian Species No. 383). Considered a subspecies of bursarius by Hall (1981) and Patton (1993). Contact zones between breviceps and bursarius studied by Bohlin and Zimmerman (1982) and Zimmerman and Gayden (1981) and between breviceps and attwateri by Tucker and Schmidly (1981), Dowler (1989), and Burt and Dowler (1999). Jolley et al. (2000) examined the phylogenetic position of breviceps relative to other species of Geomys . Two subspecies recognized ( Sulentich et al., 1991), but sagittalis may be a distinct species based on mitochondrial DNA variation ( Demastes, 1994).

References

Bohlin, R. G., and E. G. Zimmerman. 1982. Genic differentiation of two chromosomal races of the Geomys bursarius complex. Journal of Mammalogy, 63: 218 - 228.

Burt, M. S., and R. C. Dowler. 1999. Biochemical systematics of Geomys breviceps and two chromosomal races of Geomys attwateri in eastern Texas. Journal of Mammalogy, 80: 799 - 809.

Demastes, J. W. 1994. Systematics and zoogeography of the Mer Rouge pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps breviceps) based on cytochrome-b sequences. Southwestern Naturalist, 39: 276 - 280.

Dowler, R. C. 1989. Cytogenetic studies of three chromosomal races of pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius complex) at hybrid zones. Journal of Mammalogy, 70: 253 - 266.

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.

Jolley, T. W., R. L. Honeycutt, and R. D. Bradley. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of pocket gophers (genus Geomys) based on the mitochondrial 12 S rRNA gene. Journal of Mammalogy, 81: 1025 - 1034.

Sulentich, J. M., L. R. Williams, and G. N. Cameron. 1991. Geomys breviceps. Mammalian Species, 383: 1 - 4.

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.

Zimmerman, E. G., and N. A. Gayden. 1981. Analysis of genic heterogeneity among local populations of the pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius. Pp. 272 - 287, in Mammalian population genetics (M. H. Smith and J. Joule, eds.). University of Georgia Press, Athens, 380 pp.