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Original
Description |
Gray 1870a : 190 |
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Type
Locality |
"Chili" [= Chile, South America]; "Chili . . . N. Patagonia . . . Mendoza and the Pampas . . . Monte Video and Buenos Ayres . . .", according to Gray (1870b:707). |
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Syntypes |
(2 specimens) BMNH RR 1947.3.5.8; BMNH 1947.3.5.9, (both formerly BMNH 70.12.18.2) |
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Original name |
Testudo (gopher) chilensis |
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Common
name |
Chaco Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Argentina and Paraguay |
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Comments |
Subgenus Chelonoidis according to Williams (1952:555); subgenus Gopher according to Bour (1984c). Includes Geochelone petersi (Freiberg, 1973), according to most authors, including Wermuth and Mertens (1977), Pritchard (1979), and Richard et al. (1990). In addition, although G. donosobarrosi (Freiberg, 1973:83) is considered a full species by many authors (e.g. Cei, 1986; Richard, 1988; Richard and de la Fuente, 1988; and King and Burke, 1989:73-75); and a subspecies of chilensis by others (e.g. Walker, in Swingland and Klemens, 1989), Buskirk (1992) was unable to distinguish between them morphometrically or meristically. Reviewed as G. chilensis by Groombridge (1982), Waller (1986), and Walker (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). |
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