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The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz’s land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation

Abstract. We investigate a cornucopia of problems associated with the identity of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Cooper). The date of publication is found to be 1861, rather than 1863. Only one of the three original cotypes exists, and it is designated as the lectotype of the species. Anot...

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Autores principales: Murphy, Robert W., Berry, Kristin H., Edwards, Taylor, Leviton, Alan E., Lathrop, Amy, Riedle, J. Daren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21976992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.113.1353