The Plains Pocket Gopher’s range extends throughout much of the Great Plains region of North America and this gopher is found in suitable habitats throughout North Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma.

In the United States, gophers, most often called pocket gophers, are found in the central plains from Canada south to Texas and Louisiana, and in the Southwest. Pocket gophers are so named because ...

517-536 (20 pages) Five new species of Aphodius (dyspistus, tanytarsus, hubbelli, platypleurus, and pholetus), collected in the burrows of pocket gophers (Geomys pinetus Rafinesque), are described.