Gopherus berlandieri
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Description
Gopherus berlandieri (Agassiz 1857:447)
Syntypes (5): USNM 59 (probably one of the two specimens included in USNM 60; Reynolds et al. 2007:33), 60 (2 specimens; both photographed in Bour 2017:64–65), 75, 222511 (originally USNM 85; photographed in Bour 2017:62–63), 222512 (originally USNM Osteo 1528 and later USNM Osteo 29610; Reynolds et al. 2007:33). Cochran (1961:236), Auffenberg & Franz (1978:1), and Smith & Smith (1980:622) each erroneously listed only USNM 60 (2 specimens) as syntypes. USNM 60 (2) designated lectotype by Bour (2017:61).
Testudo tuberculata Berlandier 1850:287
Syntypes (number uncertain): Not located; Plate V in the original description designated lectotype by Bour (2017:57, Fig. 3).
Testudo bicolor Berlandier 1850:287
Holotype: Not designated (Bour 2017:57).
Gopherus auffenbergi t Mooser 1972:61
Holotype: FC 500.
Gopherus evgoodei Edwards, Karl, Vaughn, Rosen, Meléndez-Torres, & Murphy 2016:140
Holotype: AMNH 164160 (photographed in the original description, pp. 143–149, Fig. 6–14); paratypes (3), AMNH 64157, 64158, and ROM 53301 (formerly AMNH 64159).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 64159
- Scientific name authorship
- Agassiz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Gopherus
- Species
- berlandieri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gopherus berlandieri (Agassiz, 1857) sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Agassiz, L. (1857) Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classification. Part II. North American Testudinata. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, pp. 1 - 452.
- Reynolds, R. P., Gotte, S. W. & Ernst, C. H. (2007) Catalog of type specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 626, 1 - 49. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.626
- Cochran, D. M. (1961) Type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin, 220, 1 - 291. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.220
- Auffenberg, W. & Franz, R. (1978) Gopherus berlandieri. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, 213, 1 - 2.
- Smith, H. M. & Smith, R. B. (1980 [" 1979 "]) Synopsis of the herptofauna of Mexico. Volume VI. Guide to Mexican turtles. Bibliographic addendum III. John Johnson, North Bennington, Vermont, 1044 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1444548
- Murphy, J. B. (2016) Conservation initiatives and studies on tortoises, turtles, and terrapins mostly in zoos and aquariums. Part. II - Suborder Pleurodira, Suborder Cryptodira, sea turtles. Herpetologica Review, 47, 501 - 512.