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    Species Accepted

    Gopherus polyphemus (Daudin, 1801)

    (Florida) Gopher Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Gopherus
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      23 results
      (Florida) Gopher Tortoise English
      Florida Gopherschildkröte German
      Florida-Gopherschildkröte German
      Florida-goferskildpadde Danish
      Georgia-Gopherschildkröte German
      Gopher Tortoise English
      Gophère Polyphème French
      Lucv-huehkv Creek
      Tartaruga-da-Flórida Portuguese
      Tartaruga-geômis Portuguese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      163 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Diemer, J. E. (1992). Demography of the Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus in Northern Florida. Journal of Herpetology 26 (3): 281-289.
      Whitfield, S. M., Ridgley, F., Valle, D., & Atteberry, N. (2018). Seroprevalence of Mycoplasma agassizii and Mycoplasma testudineum in wild and waif Gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. Herpetological Review 49 (1): 47-49.
      Mushinsky, H.R., D.S. Wilson & E.D. McCoy. (1994). Growth and Sexual Dimorphism of Gopherus polyphemus in Central Florida. Herpetologica 50 (2): 119-128.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Elbers, Jean P. and Sabrina S. Taylor. (2019). Mycoplasma Prevalence in a Reintroduced Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Population. Herp. Conserv. Biology 14 (3):
      Holbrook, Aaron L., Jodie M. Jawor, Matt Hinderliter and James R. Lee. (2015). A hatchling gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) care protocol for experimental research and head-starting programs. Herpetological Review 46 (4): 538-543.
      Harper, & Francis. (1940). Some works of Bartram, Daudin, Latreille, and Sonnini, and their bearing upon North American herpetological nomenclature. American Midland Naturalist 23 (3): 692-723.
      Timmerman, Walter W.;Roberts, Richard E. (1994). Gopherus polyphemus (gopher tortoise). Maximum size. Herpetological Review 25 (2): 64.
      Auffenberg, & Walter. (1977). Display Behavior in Tortoises. American Zoologist 17: 241-250.

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