Geomys bursarius (Shaw 1800)

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

Geomys bursarius (Shaw 1800)

[Mus] bursarius Shaw 1800 , Philosophical Magazine, 6: 215.

Type Locality: USA, upper Mississippi Valley (restricted to Minnesota, Sherburne Co., Elk River by Swenk, 1939).

Vernacular Names: Plains Pocket Gopher.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. bursarius ( Shaw 1800)

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. illinoensis Komarek and Spencer 1931

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. industrius Villa and Hall 1947

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. jugossicularis Hooper 1940

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. lutescens Merriam 1890

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. major Davis 1940

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. majusculus Swenk 1939

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. missouriensis McLaughlin 1958

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. ozarkensis Elrod, Zimmerman, Sudman, and Heidt 2000

Subspecies Geomys bursarius subsp. wisconsinensis Jackson 1957

Distribution: SC Manitoba ( Canada) to NW Indiana, SC Texas, and NE New Mexico ( USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Merriam (1895 a) and, in part, by Honeycutt and Schmidly (1979) and by Heaney and Timm (1983 a), who considered lutescens a valid species (see also Heaney and Timm, 1985; Jolley et al., 2000). Burns et al. (1985), Sudman et al (1987), and Elrod et al. (2000) listed lutescens as a subspecies of bursarius , which is followed here. Elrod et al. (2000) mapped the ranges of all subspecies recognized by Hall (1981).