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  2. Gopher tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is native to the southeastern United States. The gopher tortoise is seen as a keystone species because it digs burrows that provide shelter for at least 360 other animal species. G. polyphemus is threatened by predation and habitat ...

  3. Gopherus - Wikipedia

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    Gopherus is a genus of fossorial tortoises commonly referred to as gopher tortoises. The gopher tortoise is grouped with land tortoises that originated 60 million years ago, in North America. A genetic study has shown that their closest relatives are in the Asian genus Manouria. [1] The gopher tortoises live in the southern United States from ...

  4. Bolson tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus), also called the Mexican giant tortoise, Mexican gopher tortoise, yellow-bordered tortoise or yellow-margined tortoise, is a species of tortoise from North America. Of the six North American tortoise species, it is the largest, having a carapace length of about 46 cm (18 in).

  5. Category:Gopherus - Wikipedia

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    Gopher tortoise; S. Sonoran Desert tortoise; T. Texas tortoise This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 05:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  6. List of U.S. state reptiles - Wikipedia

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    [3] [15] However, in the United States, only the Alabama red-bellied turtle is legally an endangered species. [132] The loggerhead sea turtle is only considered "threatened" under U.S. regulations. [133] Two species are IUCN Vulnerable: the desert tortoise (California and Nevada) and the gopher tortoise (Georgia, also the official tortoise of ...

  7. Desert tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae.The species is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, and to the Sinaloan thornscrub of northwestern Mexico. [4]

  8. Texas tortoise - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, using Environmental Vulnerability Scores, Gopherus berlandieri scored 18, a high vulnerability species on a scale of 0–20, in evaluations of both Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon herpetofauna. [7] [8] In 2018, the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group recommended a re-assessment and re-classification of all six Gopherus ...

  9. Sonoran Desert tortoise - Wikipedia

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    the Mojave or Agassiz's desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii); known primarily from the California counties of Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. [5] Its range continues northeast of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert through the Nevada counties of Clark , Esmeralda , Lincoln and Nye , as well as Mohave ...