Geomyoidea
Appearance
| Superfamily Geomyoidea | |
|---|---|
| Taxonomic classification | |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Castorimorphi |
Geomyoidea is a superfamily that contains pocket gophers, kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, and pocket mice. There are over 100 species in this superfamily. This group is restricted to the western hemisphere. Species found in the United States of America are listed below.
Available taxon pages
The following families are available on WhiskerWiki for this superfamily:
- Family: Geomyidae
- Subfamily: Geomyinae
- Tribe: Thomomyini
- Genus: Megascapheus
- Genus: Thomomys
- Subgenus: No information
- Tribe: Geomyini
- Genus: Geomys
- Genus: Cratogeomys
- Subgenus: No information
- Tribe: Thomomyini
- Subfamily: Geomyinae
- Family: Heteromyidae
- Subfamily: Perognathinae
- Tribe: No information
- Genus: Perognathus
- Genus: Chaetodipus
- Tribe: No information
- Subfamily: Dipodomyinae
- Tribe: No information
- Genus: Microdipodops
- Genus: Dipodomys
- Subgenus: No information
- Tribe: No information
- Subfamily: Heteromyinae
- Subfamily: Perognathinae