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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classTestudines
  4. ›familyTestudinidae
  5. ›genusGopherus
Gopherus berlandieri
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Berlandier's Tortoise

Gopherus berlandieri Agassiz, 1857

Also calledGalapago Tamaulipas (spa) · Galápago de Berlandier (spa) · Galápago tamaulipeco (spa) · Gopherus berlandieri (deu) · Gophère du Texas (fra) · Tartaruga-de-Berlandier (por) · Tartaruga-do-Texas (por) · Texas-Gopherschildkröte (deu) · Texas-goferskildpadde (dan) · Tortue du Texas (fra) · Tortuga de Texas (spa) · Tortuga del desierto de Tamaulipas (spa) · texasi üregteknős (hun) · želva Berlandierova (ces)

First described in: Agassiz, & Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. vol. 1.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

materials_examined

Holotype: AMNH 164160 (photographed in the original description, pp. 143 – 149, Fig. 6 – 14); paratypes (3), AMNH 64157, 64158, and ROM 53301 (formerly AMNH 64159).

A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)

materials_examined

Holotype: Not designated (Bour 2017: 57). Gopherus auffenbergi t Mooser 1972: 61 Holotype: FC 500.

A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2441808.