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    Species Accepted

    Gopherus flavomarginatus Legler, 1959

    Appleton Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Gopherus
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Appleton Tortoise English
      Bolson tortoise English
      Bolson-goferskildpadde Danish
      Galápago de Bolsón Spanish
      Galápago de Mapimí Spanish
      Gelbrand-Gopherschildkröte German
      Gophère à Bords Jaunes French
      La Tortuga del Bolsón Spanish
      Mexican Giant Tortoise English
      Mexican Gopher Tortoise English

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      37 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Ureña-Aranda, C. A., & de los Monteros, A. E. (2012). The genetic crisis of the Mexican Bolson Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus: Testudinidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 33 (1): 45-53.
      Nichols, Richard A. (1989). Mitochondrial DNA clues to gopher tortoise dispersal. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 4: 192.
      Lamb, T., & Lydeard, C. (1994). A molecular phylogeny of the gopher tortoises, with comments on familial relationships within the Testudinoidea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 3 (4): 283-291.
      González Trápaga, R., & Aguirre León, G. (2006). Gopherus flavomarginatus, die mexikanische Gopherschildkröte. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (62): 28-34.
      Zylstra, E. (2007). The Bolson Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus): King of the (re-) wild frontier. Sonoran Herpetologist 20 (5):50-54.
      Legler, J. M., & Vogt, R. C. (2013). The Turtles of Mexico: Land and Freshwater Forms. University of California Press, 416 Pp.
      Winchell, S. (2006). Tortoises of North America - an overview of the genus Gopherus. Reptilia (GB) (49): 9-15.
      TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour]. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V7.2014.
      Joyce, Walter G. and Christopher J. Bell. (2004). A review of the comparative morphology of extant testudinoid turtles (Reptilia: Testudines). Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 53-109.

      Citation

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