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Bolson Tortoise



[CITIES-listed Endangered Species]
Desert Diary, 23 Nov 2001--Bolson Tortoise: Carapace of a Bolson Tortoise. Most of the scutes (dark brown) have been lost. It was a shell much like this that--turned upside ...
http://museum.utep.edu/chih/theland/animals/reptiles/gophflav.htm

Bolson Tortoise: Bolson Tortoise. Gopherus flavomarginatus. Context. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines ...
http://emys.geo.orst.edu/collection/species/Gopherusflavomarginatus/Gopherusflavomarginatus.html

EMYSystem Species Page: Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson Tortoise): Holotype, USNM 61253. Original name, Gopherus flavomarginatus. Common name, Bolson Tortoise. Distribution, North-central Mexico. Comments, ...
http://emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Gopherusflavomarginatus/Gopherusflavomarginatus.html

EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson ...: Tortoises) subfamily.....Xerobatinae () genus.....Gopherus (Gopher Tortoises) species.....Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson Tortoise) ...
http://biology.uky.edu/palmer/cites.htm

CITES: TESTUDINIDAE, Gopherus berlandieri, Texas Tortoise, II. TESTUDINIDAE, Gopherus flavomarginatus, Bolson Tortoise, I. TESTUDINIDAE, Gopherus polyphemus, Gopher Tortoise ...
http://www.fiu.edu/~acaten01/turcro2.html

Turtles and crocs: ...dome. Bolson Tortoise from N Mexico can burrow more than 1 m in desert soil, jump into burrows to escape predators. The Pancake ...
http://www.brrc.unr.edu/dtrpac/members.htm

DTRPAC-Members: ...desert tortoise at Ft. Irwin and Edwards Air Force Base, and of the endangered Bolson tortoise in Mexico. Ken Nussear. Ken is a Ph. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/uf-herp/alumni/Auffenbergbiblio.htm

Walter Auffenberg Bibliography: In: Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, p. 213.1-2. (with R. Franz); Gopherus flavomarginatus Legler, Bolson tortoise. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/search/queryhitturt.htm

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Index: ...turtle blandingii, Cistuda blandingii, Cistudo blandingii, Emydoidea Blunt-headed giant softshell turtle Bog turtle boie, Testudo Bolson tortoise Bornean river ...
http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e154014.htm

TAXONOMY: ...four extant species of Gopherus; G. agassizi (Desert tortoise), G. berlandieri (Texas tortoise), G. flavamarinatus (Bolson tortoise), and G. polyphemus (gopher ...
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~beebe/Mexico/Plants_Animals/Plants_Animals.html

Plants and Animals: Cicada on a Prickley Pear Cicada on a Prickley Pear, Gopherus flavomarginatus, the Bolson Tortoise Gopherus flavomarginatus, the Bolson Tortoise, The Bolson ...
http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~bgriffit.faculty/reptiles+.html

REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS: 1989. Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus) conservation: II. Husbandry and reintroduction. Vida Silvestre Neotrop. 2:14-20. ...
http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~bgriffit.faculty/wholeindex.html

Index to Wildlife Translocation Bibliography: ...tree, brown 776. toad. crested, Puerto Rican 769. natterjack 773. tortoise. Aldabra giant 775. Bolson 724. desert 748. Espanola 725. giant 767, 775. ...
http://www.rw.ttu.edu/vegcom/chihuahua/chihuahuan_wildlife.htm

Wildlife: Numerous species such as the Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus) and others such as pronghorn antelope were once grassland animals. ...
http://www.mcb.arizona.edu/careers/jarchowbio.html

Jim Jarchow: ...him with the opportunity to take part in several research projects and recovery programs for endangered species, including the bolson tortoise, the San Esteban ...
http://maya.ucr.edu/pril/reservas/mapimi/mapimi8.html

Reserva de la Biósfera Mapimí: ...- [ Translate this page ]... 1989. Bolson Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus) Conservation. I. Life History. ... 1989. Gopherus flavomarginatus. Bolson Tortoise . ...
http://www.uttyler.edu/biology/Koukl/Research.htm

Biology Home Page: ...of translocated box turtles • comparative physiological analysis of free ranging and captive population of the Bolson’s Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus ...
http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/tortoise/main1.html

Untitled1: II. Similar species: Texas tortoise, Gopherus berlandieri (Agassiz); Bolson tortoise, Gopherus flavomarginatus (Legler); gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus ...
http://www.rmrs.nau.edu/publications/madrean/bibfiles/Vert.txt

Vertebrate Ecology (<a href="<a href="<a href="<a href="http://www ...: Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus Legler) at the research ranch. In: Hashagen, KA, editor. ... The ecology of the bolson tortoise Gopherus flavomarginatus. ...
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/pubs/opapers.htm

Occasional Papers: Dalquest and Stangl. OP-089, Aspects of the thermal biology of the bolson tortoise, Gopherus flavomarginatus Rose. OP-088, Rediscription ...
http://agg3333.ifas.ufl.edu/scrub_end.txt

Alford, RA 1980. Population structure of Gopherus polyphemus in ...: The ecogeography of the Mexican Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus): Derivation of its endangered status and recommendations for its conservation. ...
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309052882/html/67.html

Nat'l Academies Press, Ward Valley: (1995), page 67, in chapter 3 ...: Water content was monitored in a small scale ephemeral stream setting (maximum topographic relief of 0.65 m) in the Hueco Bolson of Texas (Scanlon, 1994a). ...
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309052882/html/63.html

Nat'l Academies Press, Ward Valley: (1995), 3 RECHARGE THROUGH THE ...: ...was monitored in a small scale ephemeral stream setting (maximum topographic relief of 0.65 m) in the Hueco Bolson of Texas ...
http://www.geo.utep.edu/pub/carrick/Grad_Info/mslist.html

MS Theses Listings: The McGregor geothermal system lies on the eastern edge of the Hueco Bolson of southern ... The massive member is tortoise-shell jointed and ranges from 9 to 18 m ...
http://www.geo.utep.edu/pub/sierra_blanca

Nuclear Waste Disposal Issues in Ft. Hancock, TX; Part I: Nearby in some of the same rock units giant tortoise fossils were discovered several ... mi southeast of El Paso at the eastern edge of the Hueco bolson, a major ...
http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309052882/html/234.html

Nat'l Academies Press, Ward Valley: (1995), page 234, in chapter ...: Surface fissures in the Hueco Bolson and adjacent basins, West Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Geological Circular 92(2), pp. ...
http://www.bu.edu/jfa/Indices/NorthAm.html

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