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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Xerobatinae ()
genus...............Gopherus (Gopher Tortoises)
species..............Gopherus berlandieri (Berlandier's Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Agassiz 1857 : 447
- Syntypes
- USNM 60 (2 specimens)
- Type Locality
- "southern Texas and Mexico"; restricted to "Lower Rio Grande, Texas," [USA] by Stejneger and Barbour (1917:121); restricted to "Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas," USA, by Schmidt (1953:105)
- Original name
- Xerobates berlandieri
- Common Name
- Berlandier's Tortoise
- Distribution
- Southern Texas (USA) and northeastern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Auffenberg and Franz (1978c), Smith and Smith (1979), Groombridge (1982), and Rose and Judd in (Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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