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DOI | 10.3897/zookeys.113.1353 |
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 | |
Murphy, Robert W.1,2; Berry, Kristin H.3; Edwards, Taylor4; Leviton, Alan E.5; Lathrop, Amy1; Riedle, J. Daren6 | |
通讯作者 | Murphy, Robert W. |
来源期刊 | ZOOKEYS
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ISSN | 1313-2989 |
EISSN | 1313-2970 |
出版年 | 2011 |
期号 | 113页码:39-71 |
英文摘要 | We investigate a cornucopia of problems associated with the identity of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Cooper). The date of publication is found to be 1861, rather than 1863. Only one of the three original cotypes exists, and it is designated as the lectotype of the species. Another cotype is found to have been destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. The third is lost. The lectotype is genetically confirmed to be from California, and not Arizona, USA as sometimes reported. Maternally, the holotype of G. lepidocephalus (Ottley & Velazques Solis. 1989) from the Cape Region of Baja California Sur, Mexico is also from the Mojavian population of the desert tortoise, and not from Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico as previously proposed. A suite of characters serve to diagnose tortoises west and north of the Colorado River, the Mojavian population, from those east and south of the river in Arizona, USA, and Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, the Sonoran population. Species recognition is warranted and because G. lepidocephalus is from the Mojavian population, no names are available for the Sonoran species. Thus, a new species, Gopherus morafkai sp. n., is named and this action reduces the distribution of G. agassizii to only 30% of its former range. This reduction has important implications for the conservation and protection of G. agassizii, which may deserve a higher level of protection. |
英文关键词 | Lectotype Xerobates Gopherus lepidocephalus desert tortoise recovery units California Arizona Mexico |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada ; Peoples R China ; USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000294089600002 |
WOS关键词 | NORTH-AMERICAN TORTOISES ; DESERT TORTOISE ; GENUS GOPHERUS ; SONORAN DESERT ; EGG-PRODUCTION ; LIFE-HISTORY ; HABITAT USE ; POPULATION ; SCAPTOCHELYS ; EXTINCTION |
WOS类目 | Zoology |
WOS研究方向 | Zoology |
来源机构 | University of Arizona ; United States Geological Survey |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/170869 |
作者单位 | 1.Royal Ontario Museum, Ctr Biodivers & Conservat Biol, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada; 2.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Genet Resources & Evolut, Kunming Inst Zool, Kunming 650223, Peoples R China; 3.US Geol Survey, Western Ecol Res Ctr, Riverside, CA 92518 USA; 4.Univ Arizona Genet Core, Arizona Res Labs, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA; 5.Calif Acad Sci, Dept Herpetol, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA; 6.Lincoln Univ, Dept Agr & Environm Sci, Jefferson City, MO 65101 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Murphy, Robert W.,Berry, Kristin H.,Edwards, Taylor,等. 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[J]. University of Arizona, United States Geological Survey,2011(113):39-71. |
APA | Murphy, Robert W.,Berry, Kristin H.,Edwards, Taylor,Leviton, Alan E.,Lathrop, Amy,&Riedle, J. Daren.(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. |
MLA | Murphy, Robert W.,et al."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(2011):39-71. |
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