EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Gopherus flavomarginatus
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Xerobatinae ()
genus...............Gopherus (Gopher Tortoises)
species..............Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Legler 1959 : 337
- Holotype
- USNM 61253
- Type Locality
- "30 to 40 miles from Lerdo, Durango, Mexico"
- Original name
- Gopherus flavomarginatus
- Common Name
- Bolson Tortoise
- Distribution
- North-central Mexico
- Comments
- Reviewed by Auffenberg and Franz (1978d), Smith and Smith (1979), Groombridge (1982), Morafka (1982), Bury et al. (1988 in Morafka and McCoy, 1988), and Morafka et al. (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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