GEOMYIDAI—SYNONYMY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 609 
Famity GEOMYIDA. 
SYNONYMY. 
< Saccomyina, WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mamm. ii, 1848, 8, (Asa group of Muridw. Included the Sac- 
comyid@, now made a separate family: Equivalent to the superfamily Saccomyoidea of 
Gill, 1872.) 
< Pseudostomida, GERVAIS, “ Dict. Univ. d’Hist. Nat. xi, 1848”. (Family. Equivalent to the Saccomyina of 
Waterhouse.) 
< Saccomyide, LitLyeBoRG, Syst. Gifv. Gnag. Diiggdj. 1866. (Family. Equivalent to Saccomyina of 
Waterhouse.) 
ea cee tenet retdes, Branvt, Bull. Se. Acad. St. Pétersh. 1854, t. xiii, no. 7; Mélang. Biol. ii, 138; Beitr. 
Kennt. Siiug. Russlands, 1855, 188. (Group composed of he genera Geomys and Thomomy ys.) 
= Sciurospalacini, GIEBEL, Allg. Zool. i. 
= Geomyine, Bairp, Mamm. N. A. 1857, 366. (Subfamily of Saccomyide ; the group of ‘this name with 
‘ this author being equivalent to Saccomyina, Waterhouse. ) 
= Geomyide, Gi, Arrang. Fam. Mamm. 1£72, 71. (Family.) 
= Geomyide, Cours, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1875, 130. (amily.) 
= Genera Geomys (= Diplostoma, Saccophorus, Pseudostoma, Ascomys) and Thomomys of AUTHORS.—COvEs, 
Powell’s Rep. Expl. Colorado River, 1875, 217. 
SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1800—Snaw (G.). Description of the Mus bursarius [ete.]. < Trans. Linn. Soe. v, 1800, pp. 227 —. 
1802—Mircur1 (8. 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. §.). Descriptions of seven new genera of North American Qnadrupeds. 
< Amer. Month. Mag. ii, 1817, pp. 44-46. 
___ fNore,—Mazama, Diplostoma, p. 44; Geomys, Cynomys, Mynomes, p. 45; Lynx, p. 46.] 
1819—Drsmarest (—). [Hamster de Virginie.] < Journ. de Physique. Ixxxix, 1819, p. 159. 
1821—Mrtcnrt (S. L.). Description of two mammiferous Avimals of North America [Sciurus tride- 
___ cem-lineatus, Mus saceatus]. < N.Y. Med. Repos. xxi, 1821, pp, 248-250. 
[NorTEe.— With the subhead, ‘‘ The Gopher, or Pouched Rat of North America, (Mus borsarius.)’’] 
1822—Mrircuitt (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—LICcHTENSTEIN (K. W. H.). Ueber iiussere Backentaschen an Nagethieren. < Kéngl. Akad. Wiss. 
Berlin, Abh. der phys. Classe (1322-23), 1825. 
1839—Maxim1Lt1an (—). Ueber einige Nager mit iiusseren Backentaschen aus dem westlichen Nord. 
Amerika [Thomomys und Perognathus, genn. nn.J]. < Noy. Act. Acad. Cxs.-Leop. Nat- 
Cur. xix, i, 1839, pp. 366-384. 
1841—CnarteswortH (E.). [On Habitsof Ascomysmexicanus.] < Proe. Zodl. Soc. Lond. ix, 1841, p. 60. 
1847-49—Wicner (A.). Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Siiugethiere Amerika’s. < Abhandl. math.-pbys. 
Classe, King]. bayer. Akad. Wiss. v, 1847-49, p. 405. [Uber Ascomys canadensis. ] 
1852—LEContTe (J. L.). An attempt at a synopsis of the genus Geomys [incl. Thomomys]. < Proc. 
Phila. Acad. 1852, pp. 157-. 
1852—Woopuouse (S. W.). Description of a new species of Pouched Rat of the genus Geomys [G. 
fulyus]. < Proce. Phila. Acad. 1852, p. 201. 
1855—Batrp (S.F.). Characters of some new species of North-American Mammalia, etc. [Geomys clarkii]. 
< Proce. Phila. Acad, 1855, 333. : 
1855—Parvin (J. B.). On the habits of the Gopher of Illinois (Geomys bursarius). < Ann. Rep. Smiths. 
Tost. for 1854, 1855, pp. 293-294. 
1861—Gesnur (W.). On the habits of the Pouched Rat, or Salamander, (Geomys pineti,) of Georgiz. 
< Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. for 1860, 1861, pp. 431-433. 
1864—Prriers (W.). Ueber nene Arten der Siiugethiergattungen Geomys [heterodus], Haplodon und 
Dasypus. < Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864, pp. 177-181. 
1867—Lerpy (J.). [On a skull of Geomys bursarius from the loess of the Missouri.] < Proce. Acad. 
Phila. 1867, p. 99. 
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