Thomomys

Northern pocket gopher Thomomys talpoides, copyright Wesley McGee.

Belongs within: Geomyidae.

Thomomys, smooth-toothed pocket gophers, is a genus of gophers lacking grooves on the upper incisors.

<==Thomomys
| i. s.: T. neglectusG56
| T. nigerD37
| T. perpallidusH30
| |--T. p. perpallidusH30
| |--T. p. albicaudatus Hall 1930H30
| |--T. p. amargosaeH30
| |--T. p. aureiventris Hall 1930H30
| |--T. p. aureusH30
| `--T. p. centralis Hall 1930H30
|--+--T. clusiusFS15
| `--T. monticolaFS15
`--+--T. talpoidesFS15
| |--T. t. talpoidesT74
| `--T. t. agrestisT74
`--+--T. idahoensisFS15
`--T. mazamaFS15

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[D37] Dobzhansky, T. 1937. Genetics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press: New York.

[FS15] Faurby, S., & J.-C. Svenning. 2015. A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 14–26.

[G56] Gould, D. J. 1956. The larval trombiculid mites of California (Acarina: Trombiculidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 11 (1): 1–116.

[H30] Hall, E. R. 1930. Three new pocket gophers from Utah and Nevada. University of California Publications in Zoology 32 (6): 443–447.

[T74] Thaeler, C. S., Jr. 1974. Four contacts between ranges of different chromosome forms of the Thomomys talpoides complex (Rodentia: Geomyidae). Systematic Zoology 23 (3): 343–354.

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