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    A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico
    A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico
    A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico
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    A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Author: John M. Legler

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      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Volume 11, No. 5, pp. 335-343, pls. 7 and 8

      April 24, 1959

      A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus,

      From North-central Mexico

      BY

      JOHN M. LEGLER

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence

      1959

      University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

      Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,

      Robert W. Wilson

      Volume 11, No. 5, pp. 335-343

      Published April 24, 1959

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence, Kansas

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      1959

      A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico

      BY

      JOHN M. LEGLER

      In the course of taxonomic studies of the genus Gopherus it was found that specimens from north-central Mexico belong to an hitherto unrecognized species, which is named and described below.

      Gopherus flavomarginatus new species

      Holotype.—U.S. National Museum 61253, adult; stuffed specimen with disassociated skull; 30 to 40 miles from Lerdo, Durango, Mexico; obtained by Dr. Elswood Chaffee, 1918.

      Paratypes.—USNM 61254, adult, stuffed specimen with skull in place, other data the same as those for holotype; USNM 60976, adult, stuffed specimen with disassociated skull, Lerdo, Durango, Dr. Elswood Chaffee, May 1918; University of Illinois 42953-4, adults, two carapaces, Carrillo, Chihuahua, Pete S. Chrapliwy and Kenneth

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