Gopherus agassizii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Testudinidae
Genus: Gopherus
Species: Gopherus agassizii

Name

Gopherus agassizii (Cooper, 1861)
- Original genus: Xerobates
- Primary type: lectotype
  - Fixation: designated by Murphy et al., 2011

Mentions

Xerobates agassizii Cooper 1861
Testudo agassizii — Boulenger 1889
Gopherus agassizii — Stejneger 1893
Gopherus polyphemus agassizii — Mertens & Wermuth 1955
Gopherus agassizii — Stebbins 1985: 104
Xerobates lepidocephalus Ottley & Velázques Solis, 1989
Gopherus agassizii — Liner 1994
Gopherus agassizii — Crother 2000

References

Cooper J.G. 1861: New Californian animals. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (ser. 1) 2: 118–123.

Ottley, John R.; Solis, Victor M. Velazques. 1989: An Extant, Indigenous Tortoise Population in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with the Description of a New Xerobates (Chelonii: Testudinidae). The Great Basin Naturalist, 49(4): 496.
Murphy, R.W.; Berry, K.H.; Edwards, T.; Leviton, A.E.; Lathrop, A.; Riedle, J.D. 2011: 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. ZooKeys, 113: 39–71. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.113.1353

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Vernacular names

čeština: Želva Agassizova
Deutsch: Kalifornische Gopherschildkröte
English: Agassiz’s desert tortoise, desert tortoise
日本語: サバクゴファーガメ
português: Tartaruga-do-deserto