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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 ...
The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. ... The lifespan of a desert tortoise can vary from 50 to 80 years. [7]
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 ...
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).
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 ...
gopher tortoise: Testudinidae: High Apalone ferox: Florida softshell turtle: Trionychidae: Moderate Apalone mutica: smooth softshell turtle: Trionychidae: Low Apalone spinifera: spiny softshell turtle: Trionychidae: Low Eretmochelys imbricata imbricata [10] Atlantic hawksbill: Cheloniidae: Highest/U.S. Fish and Wildlife lists as endangered [11]
Edwards et al. sampled 233 tortoises that represented Sonoran and Sinaloan lineages of G. morafkai. [6] The authors then conducted a large-scale genetic analysis that when combined with significant ecological and morphological differentiation, suggested that the southernmost Gopherus "Sinaloan" population constituted a newly described species ...
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 ...