Family GEOMYIDAE

(POCKET GOPHERS)

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• Small to medium-sized rodents with furlined cheek pouches external to the mouth and adaptations for fossorial life, including large incisors, muscular front legs, and fusiform bodies.

• 15-45 cm.

• Nearctic and Neotropical regions.

• Near sea level to timberline in all habitats with friable, non-flooding soils.

• 7 genera, 41 species, at least 314 extant taxa.

• 2 species Critically Endangered, 1 species Endangered; 3 subspecies Extinct since 1600.