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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Xerobatinae ()
genus...............Gopherus (Gopher Tortoises)
species..............Gopherus polyphemus (Gopher Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Daudin 1802 : 256
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- "bords de la rivière Savanna et près de l'Alatamah" [USA]; restricted by Schmidt (1953:104) to "vicinity of Savannah [Chatham Co.], Georgia," USA
- Original name
- Testudo polyphemus
- Common Name
- Gopher Tortoise
- Distribution
- Florida to southeastern Louisiana and southern South Carolina, USA
- Comments
- Reviewed by Auffenberg and Franz (1978e and 1982), Groombridge (1982), and Diemer (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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