GEOMYID/E— SYNONYMY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. G09 



Family GEOMYIDiE. 



SYNONYMY. 



< Saccomyina, Wateriiouse, Nat. Hist. Mamin. ii, 1848, 8. (As a group of Murida:. Included the Sac- 



comyida, dow made a separate family. Equivalent to the superfamily Saccomyoidea of 

 Gill, 1872.) 



< Pseudostomida; Gervais, " Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. xi, 1848". (Family. Equivalent to the Saccomyina of 



Water/house.) 



< Saccomyidw, Lilljeborg, Syst. CEfw Gnag. Daggclj. l^GG. (Family. Equivalent to Saccomyina of 



Waterhouse.) 

 = Sciurof$>alacoides, Brandt, Bull. Sc. Acad. St. Pe"tersb. 1854, t. xiii, no. 7; Melang. Biol, ii, 188; Beitr. 



Eennt. Siiug. Russlands, 1855, 188. (Group composed of the genera Geomys and Tkomomys.) 

 = Scinrospalacini, Giebel, Allg. Zool. i. 

 = Geomyinw, Baird, Mamra. N. A. 1857, 336. (Subfamily of Saccomyida: ; the group of this name with 



this author being equivalent to Saccomyina, Waterhouse.) 

 = Geomyida', Gill, Arrang. Fam. Mamm. 1872, 71. (Family.) 

 = Geomyida;, Coles, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1875, 130. (Family.) 

 = Genera Geomys (=Diplos1oma, Saccophorus, Pseudostoma, Ascomys) and Thomomys of Authors. — Coves, 



Powell's Rep. Expl. Colorado River, 1875, 217. 



SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1800 — Siiaw (G.). Description of the Musbursarius [etc.]. < Trans. Linn. Soc. v, 1800, pp. 227 . 



1902— Mitciiill (S. L.). Undescribed Little Quadruped of Georgia. < N. Y. Med. Repos. v, 1802, p. 

 89, fig. 

 [Note. — Not named ; described by J. Milledge.] 

 1817 — Rafinesque (C. S.). Descriptions of seven new genera of North American Quadrupeds. 



< Amer. Mouth. Mag. ii, 1817, pp. 44-40. 



[Note, — Mazama, Diplostoma, p. 44 ; Geomys, Cynomys, Mynomcs, p. 45; Lynx, p. 46.) 

 1819 — Desmarest ( — ). [Hamster do Virginie.] < Journ. de Physique, lxxxix, 1319, p. 159. 

 1821— Mitchill (S. L.). Description of two mammifcrons Animals of North America [Sciurus tride- 



cem-liueatus, Mus saecatus]. < N. Y. Med. Repos. xxi, 1821, pp. 248-250. 



[Note Witb the subhead, " The Gopher, or Pouched Rat of North America, (Mus bursarius.)"] 



1822 — Mitchell (S. L.). Detection of a mistake into which naturalists have been led in relation to the 



Mus bursarius or Pouched Rat of Canada. < Amer. Journ. Sci. iv, 1822, p. 183. 

 1825— Lichtenstein (K. W. II.). Ueber iiussere Backentaschen an Nagethieren. < Kongl. Akad. Wiss. 



Berlin, Abb. der phys. Classe (1822-23), 1825. 

 1839 — Maximilian ( — ). Ueber einige Nager mit ansseren Backentaschen ans dem westlichen Nord. 



Amerika [Thomomys und Perognathus, genn. nn.]. < Nov. Act. Acad. Caes.-Leop. Nat- 

 Cur, xix, i, 1839, pp. 366-384. 

 1841 — Charlesworth(E.). [On Habits of Ascomys mexicanus.] < Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix, 1841, p. CO. 

 1847-49 — Wagner (A.). Beitriige zur Kenutuiss der Siiugethiero Amerika's. < Abhandl. math.-phys. 



Classe, Kongl. bayer. Akad. Wiss. v, 1847-49, p. 405. [tlber Ascomys canadensis.] 

 1852 — LeConte (J. L.). An attempt at a synopsis of the genus Geomys [inch Thomomys]. < Proc. 



Phila. Acad. 1852, pp. 157-. 

 1852 — Woodhocse (S. W.). Description of a new species of Pouched Rat of the genus Geomys [G. 



fulvus]. < Proc. Phila. Acad. 1852, p. 201. 

 1855 — Baird (S. F.). Characters of some new species of North American Mammalia, etc. [Geomys clarkii], 



< Proc. Phila. Acad. 1855, 333. 



It55 — Parvin (J. B.). On the habits of the Gopher of Illinois (Geomys bursarius). < Ann. Rep. Smiths. 



lust, for 1854, 1855, pp. 293-294. 

 1881— Gesner (W.). On the habits of the Pouched Rat, or Salamander, (Geomys pineti,) of Georgia, 



< Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1860, 1861, pp. 431-433. 



18014— Peters (W.). Ueber nene Arten der Sangetbiergattungen Geomys [heterodns], Haplodon uml 



Dasypus. < Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864, pp. 177-181. 

 1867 — Leidy (J.). [On a skull of Geomys bursarius from the loess of the Missouri.] < Proc. Acad. 



Phila, 1867, p. 99. 



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