#geomyidae

Hall's Pocket Gopher Geomys jugossicularis

Found in the US states of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. Little is known of its behavior or ecology aside from typical behaviors of the other pocket gophers.

A very confused and rather upset Northern California Pocket Gopher (Megascapheus leticeps), family Geomyidae, on the beach in Crescent City, CA, USA

Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae)

Camas Pocket Gopher Thomomys bulbivorus

The largest of the pocket gophers, it is found in Willamette Valley of northwestern Oregon in the United States. It forages for vegetable and plant matter, which it collects in large, fur-lined, external cheek pouches. Surplus food is hoarded in an extensive system of tunnels.

Baird's Pocket Gopher Geomys breviceps

Found in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas states in the US. It burrows underground and while making its nests obtains food from the roots of different plants in its tunnels. The gophers store the food they gather in small pockets that look like black slits called "cheek pouches" on the side of their head, which is where the name "pocket gopher" originates.

Smoky Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fumosus

This gopher prefers volcanic soil and is found in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in central Mexico.

Giant Pocket Gopher Orthogeomys grandis

A gopher found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It occurs in forested and agricultural areas. They are locally common but considered agricultural pests.